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Workload Characterization of the H.264/AVC Decoder

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Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004 (PCM 2004)

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Abstract

Multimedia applications have become important workloads for modern computer systems. The latest video coding standard, H.264/AVC, adds new features to improve the coding efficiency and visual quality at the cost of higher implementation complexity. The increasing computation and storage requirements pose challenges to achieve real-time video playback on general-purpose processors (GPPs). In this paper, we aim at identifying the performance bottleneck of running a software implementation of the H.264/AVC decoder on GPPs. We adopt a simulation-based approach to perform detailed workload characterization.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University,  

    Tse-Tsung Shih, Chia-Lin Yang & Yi-Shin Tung

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyoharu Aizawa

  2. Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, 1623-14 Shimo-tsuruma, 242-0001, Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan

    Yuichi Nakamura

  3. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin’ichi Satoh

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Shih, TT., Yang, CL., Tung, YS. (2004). Workload Characterization of the H.264/AVC Decoder. In: Aizawa, K., Nakamura, Y., Satoh, S. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004. PCM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30542-2_118

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