The gap between application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and general-purpose
programmable processors in terms of performance, power, cost and flexibility is well known …

The recursive search motion estimation algorithm offers smooth and accurate motion vector
fields. Computationally, the most expensive part of the motion estimator is the evaluation of …

The importance of low-power design is not just critical to portable devices but also to line
powered equipment like TV products. Power dissipation strongly influences the price of the …

The gap between application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and general purpose
programmable processors in terms of performance, power, cost and flexibility is well known …

Motion estimation algorithms play a key role in picture-rate up-conversion. To realise high
quality interpolated images, while keeping the processing requirements low, we analyse the …

Emerging applications in the mobile and automotive industries can benefit from a solution
which can segment an image into objects. Although originally not developed for these …

In the streaming video processing domain, the only way to meet strict performance and
quality requirements and yet to provide the area-and power-wise optimal platform is to apply …

In the domain of motion estimation based applica-tions, in order to keep the bandwidth
requirements low, the usage of multiple levels of memory hierarchy is a necessity. Usually …