RVC: A multi-decoder CAL Composer tool

The Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) framework is a recent ISO standard aiming at providing a unified specification of MPEG video technology in the form of a library of components. The word "reconfigurable" evokes run-time instantiation of different decoders starting from an on-the-fly analysis of the input bitstream. In this paper we move a first step towards the definition of systematic procedures that, based on the MPEG RVC specification formalism, are able to produce multi-decoder platforms, capable of fast switching between different configurations. Looking at the similarities between the decoding algorithms to implement, the papers describes an automatic tool for their composition into a single configurable multi-decoder built of all the required modules, and able to reuse the shared components so as to reduce the overall footprint (either from a hardware or software perspective). The proposed approach, implemented in C++ leveraging on Flex and Bison code generation t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: DASIP
• Authors: Francesca Palumbo, Danilo Pani, Emanuele Manca, Luigi Raffo, Marco Mattavelli, Ghislain Roquier
• Keywords: DASIP 2010, Decoders Mpeg-4 Part, Image Processing, MPEG RVC Specification, MPEG Video Technology, Theoretical Computer Science