NDLI: Workload characterization and cost-quality tradeoffs in MPEG-4 decoding on resource-constrained devices

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yanhong Liu Chakraborty, S. Wei Tsang Ooi Gupta, A. Mohan, S.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Singapore Nat. Univ., Singapore (Yanhong Liu; Chakraborty, S.; Wei Tsang Ooi)
Abstract	There has been a lot of interest in the embedded systems community on architectures and design methods that are targeted towards multimedia applications. This trend is pri marily motivated by the proliferation of resource and power-constrained portable devices (such as mobile phones and PDAs), a major portion of whose workload is made up of multimedia applications. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoffs between video quality and the processor cycle requirements in such resource-constrained devices, in the particular context of MPEG-4 decoding using an open source codec called XviD. The XviD codec implements a number of powerful coding tools from MPEG-4, which are organized as profiles and levels. Given the specification of an architecture on which an XviD decoder is implemented, the work presented here would guide a multimedia applications developer in selecting appropriate profiles and levels for the corresponding encoder application. While the selection of such profiles has so far been primarily influenced by the network bandwidth in the case of video streaming, our work stresses the importance of additionally taking into account the architecture of the device running the decoder application. Although the relevance of this observation is increasingly being realized, sufficient work has not yet been done to provide guidelines on how to systematically make such selections. This work attempts to address this shortcoming.
Starting Page	129
Ending Page	134
File Size	183622
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780393473
DOI	10.1109/ESTMED.2005.1518091
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-09-22
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Codecs Design methodology Multimedia systems Embedded system Bandwidth Streaming media Mobile handsets Decoding Personal digital assistants MPEG 4 Standard
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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