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Algorithms and architectures for 2D discrete wavelet transform

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The 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is an important function in many multimedia applications, such as JPEG2000 and MPEG-4 standards, digital watermarking, and content-based multimedia information retrieval systems. The 2D DWT is computationally intensive than other functions, for instance, in the JPEG2000 standard. Therefore, different architectures have been proposed to process 2D DWT. The goal of this paper is to review and to evaluate different algorithms and different kinds of architectures such as application-specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate array, digital signal processors, graphics processing units, and General-Purpose Processors (GPPs) that are used to process 2D DWT. In addition, we implement the 2D DWT using different algorithms on GPPs enhanced with multimedia extensions. The experimental results show that the largest speedup of the vectorized 2D DWT over the scalar implementation is about 2.8 for first level decomposition. Furthermore, the characteristics of the 2D DWT and disadvantages of the existing architectures such as GPPs enhanced with SIMD instructions are discussed.

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Shahbahrami, A. Algorithms and architectures for 2D discrete wavelet transform. J Supercomput 62, 1045–1064 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-012-0790-x

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