Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

• Main Authors: Juurlink, Ben (Author), Alvarez-Mesa, Mauricio (Author), Chi, Chi Ching (Author), Azevedo, Arnaldo (Author), Meenderinck, Cor (Author), Ramirez, Alex (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer programming.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Programming Techniques.

Existing software applications should be redesigned if programmers want to benefit from the performance offered by multi- and many-core architectures. Performance scalability now depends on the possibility of finding and exploiting enough Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) in applications for using the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Understanding the Application: An Overview of the H.264 Standard
• Discovering the Parallelism: Task-level Parallelism in H.264 Decoding
• Exploiting Parallelism: the 2D-Wave
• Extracting More Parallelism: the 3D-Wave
• Addressing the Bottleneck: Parallel Entropy Decoding
• Putting It All Together: A Fully Parallel and Efficient H.264 Decoder
• Conclusions.