VLSI Circuits, Systems, and Architectures for Advanced Image and Video Compression Standards
1VLSI Laboratorio, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
2Chair for Embedded Systems (CES), Department of Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
3Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden
VLSI Circuits, Systems, and Architectures for Advanced Image and Video Compression Standards
Description
Modern image and video standards achieve very high compression ratios and include several coding modes in order to address applications with different requirements ranging from low-complexity to high-quality/high-end applications. Significant examples of such applications are portable devices (such as 2D/3D camcorders, cameras, cell phones, PDAs, and tablets) and home-theatre products (like DVD/blue-ray players, digital decoders, DTVs, and 3DTVs). In this scenario, JPEG-XR, 3D/multiview video coding, and upcoming H.265/HEVC (high efficiency video coding) are the cutting-edge standards that have gained significant academic, research, and industrial interest. However, these standards exhibit high complexity and memory/bandwidth requirements primarily due to complex and context-aware processing, adaptive/scalable algorithms, high-resolution frames, and high throughput/frame rate constraints. Moreover, several applications, including portable and wireless image/video communications, pose severe constraints on the power consumption. The power issue (especially leakage) becomes an imperative design criterion in the era of submicron/nano fabrication technology nodes.
As a consequence, VLSI circuits, systems, and architectures are mandatory to effectively address the above-mentioned challenges and application demands/characteristics with low power consumption. Furthermore, interoperability among different standards is an added value that can be achieved by the means of multifunctional, flexible, and adaptive circuits, systems, and architectures.
This special issue is dedicated to research problems and innovative solutions in all aspects of design and architecture addressing realization issues of cutting-edge standards for image and video compression. Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality research contributions. Submissions with focus on industrial value/potential are appreciated.
The following topics qualify for the special issue, where for each topic, work on advanced image and video compression standards with a consideration of important system metrics (like high performance, high throughput, low power, complexity, area, flexibility, and adaptivity) is encouraged. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures, microarchitecture, circuits, and systems
- VLSI implementations
- Multifunctional architectures and support for multistandards
- Adaptive and reconfigurable solutions
- Power-/energy-aware computing
- Memory (sub)systems and memory management
- Architecture exploration and optimization for computation, communication, and memory
- Multicore and multiprocessor solutions
- SoC/multicore architecture and hardware implementation targeting advanced video coding
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