Macroblock-level decoding and deblocking method and its pipeline implementation in H.264 decoder SOC design

INTRODUCTION H.264 (Wiegand et al., 2003) is the latest video coding standard developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). Besides many new technologies which can bring high compression effi-ciency, H.264 also provides other tools to flexibly adapt to different transmission networks, such as flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) (Wenger and Horowitz, 2002a; 2002b) for dealing with data er-rors/losses in error prone…     

Streaming and congestion control using scalable video coding based on H.264/AVC

INTRODUCTION Streaming of multimedia data over the Internet has rapidly increased in recent years. All commercial applications and most research in video streaming use conventional hybrid video coding. To adapt the data transmission rate on the server to the varying bandwidth caused by congestion in the Internet or to different available bandwidths of different clients, the simulcast solution is widely applied (Balk et al., 2003; Feamster et al., 2001; Schierl and Wiegand, 2004). A larg…