A Test Bench for Distortion-Energy Optimization of a DSP-Based H.264/SVC Decoder

Fernando Pescador (1) , Eduardo Juarez (1) , David Samper (1) , César Sanz (1) , Mickaël Raulet (2)

1 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique

This paper describes an OMAP based real-time test bench to find the Pareto frontier of an H.264/SVC decoder within a distortion-energy optimization space. A metric to estimate video distortion is introduced. In addition, energy consumption estimates are obtained from real-time measurements of the computational load. Finally, test bench operation is successfully demonstrated with different H.264/SVC-compliant sets of sequences.

Mots clés: H.264/SVC decoder; OMAP based real-time test bench; Pareto frontier; distortion-energy optimization; energy consumption; video distortion estimation; Pareto optimisation; benchmark testing; video codecs; video coding

Domaines: Systèmes embarqués

Fernando Pescador, Eduardo Juarez, David Samper, César Sanz, Mickaël Raulet. A Test Bench for Distortion-Energy Optimization of a DSP-Based H.264/SVC Decoder. Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD), 2010 13th Euromicro Conference on, 2010, France. pp.123 -129, ⟨10.1109/DSD.2010.109⟩. ⟨hal-00560030⟩