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As a new video compression standard, H.264/AVC greatly improves compression efficiency at the expense of computational complexity. While careful hardware design enables the fast execution of H.264/AVC, generic architectures utilize serial processing with increased power consumption. This paper presents an efficient parallel processing structure for H.264/AVC 4×4 intra prediction. A new processing order is introduced to reduce data dependencies between consecutively executed blocks within H.264/AVC intra prediction. Our experimental results show that the parallel execution of these blocks saves power consumption by up to 22.8% with slight increase in bit rate.
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Ren, Gy., Li, Jj. (2009). Low Power H.264/AVC Intra Prediction for Image Processing. In: Cao, B., Li, TF., Zhang, CY. (eds) Fuzzy Information and Engineering Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03664-4_46
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