An efficient design-for-testability scheme for motion estimation in H. 264/AVC

TH Wu, YL Tsai, SJ Chang - 2007 International Symposium on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a complete analysis for the input combinations of balanced and unbalanced
adder trees based on C-testability conditions is presented. Based on the analysis, a simple …

Design-for-testability techniques for motion estimation computing arrays

MY Dong, SH Yang, SK Lu - 2008 International Conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a testable 2-D motion estimation (TME) design at the bit level (TME bit) based
on the C-testability conditions are proposed. In order to meet the testability conditions, the bit …

C-testable motion estimation design for video coding systems

YS Huang, CJ Yang, CL Hsu - 2009 IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a c-testable motion estimation (CTME) design to efficiently detect the
faults in process elements (PEs). The goal of the CTME design is to offer high reliability for …

Built-in self-test design of motion estimation computing array

L Donglin, M Hu, OA Mohamed - The 2nd Annual IEEE …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an implementation of built-in self-test (BIST) design of motion estimation
(ME) computing array, which is the main part of MPEG-2 video encoder. The goal of the …

A high-performance and memory-efficient architecture for H. 264/AVC motion estimation

CY Kao, YL Lin - 2008 IEEE International Conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variable-block-size motion estimation (VBSME) is a major contributor to H. 264/AVC's
excellent coding efficiency. However, its high computational complexity and memory …

Analysis and testing for error tolerant motion estimation

H Chung, A Ortega - … on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel system-level error tolerance approach specifically targeted for
multimedia compression algorithms. In particular, we focus on the motion estimation process …

A quarter pel full search block motion estimation architecture for H. 264/AVC

CA Rahman, W Badawy - 2005 IEEE International Conference …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel quarter pel full search block motion estimation architecture for
H. 264/AVC encoder. The proposed architecture is capable of calculating all 41 motion …

Fast motion estimation using hierarchical motion intensity structure

Y Liang, I Ahmad, J Luo, Y Sun - 2004 IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The embedded motion compensation model of the new H. 264/AVC video coding standard
dramatically increases the computational complexity of motion estimation. We propose a fast …

VLSI architecture for motion estimation using the block-matching algorithm

C Sanz, MJ Garrido, JM Meneses - … ED&TC European Design …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper an architecture is described that implements motion estimation in image
coding, using a block-matching algorithm and an exhaustive search method. The …

Optimization of Propagate Partial SAD and SAD tree motion estimation hardwired engine for H. 264

Z Liu, S Goto, T Ikenaga - 2008 IEEE International Conference …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variable block size motion estimation algorithm is the effcient approach to reduce the
temporal redundancies and it has been adopted by the latest video coding standard H …