Energy Efficient Embedded Video Processing Systems: A Hardware-Software Collaborative Approach

This book provides its readers with the means to implement energy-efficient video systems, by using different optimization approaches at multiple abstraction levels.  The authors evaluate the complete video system with a motive to optimize its different software and hardware components in synergy, increase the throughput-per-watt, and address reliability issues. Subsequently, this book provides algorithmic and architectural enhancements, best practices and deployment models for new video systems, while considering new implementation paradigms of hardware accelerators, parallelism for heterogeneous multi- and many-core systems, and systems with long life-cycles. Particular emphasis is given to the current video encoding industry standard H.264/AVC, and one of the latest video encoders (High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Background and Related Work
Chapter 3: Power-Efficient Video System Design
Chapter 4: Energy-Efficient Software Design for Video Systems
Chapter 5: Energy-Efficient Hardware Design for Video Systems
Chapter 6: Experimental Evaluations and Discussion
Chapter 7: Conclusion and Future Outlook