Integer Linear Programming Based Scheduling for H.264 Video Decoding in Multi Core Processor.

Date of Submission

December 2011

Date of Award

Winter 12-12-2012

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Degree Name

Master of Technology

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Advance Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Sur-Kolay, Susmita (ACMU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

Demand of high quality video based technologies are increasing with highdefinition televisions, video streaming through internet and many other applications. Compression ratio of the previous standards are not enough for these upcoming technologies. The latest video compression standard, ITU-T recommended H.264/AVC (also known as ISO/IEC 14496 (MPEG-4) Part 10 for Advanced Video Coding) is expected to become the video standard of choice in the coming years for its higher compression ratio and use of more efficient technologies.H.264/AVC is an open, licensed standard that supports the most efficient video compression techniques available today. The average bit rate reduction by H.264 encoder is of 80% compared to the Motion JPEG format and 50% the MPEG-4 Part 2 standard, without compromising the image quality. This means, much less network bandwidth and storage space are required for a video file; or in another way, much higher video quality can be achieved for a given bit rate.1.1 MotivationH.264/AVC is very appropriate for the applications like multimedia streaming, high quality video broadcasting, video storage in optical and magnetic discs. But, these applications requires high speed encoding and decoding of video data. H.264/AVC encoder and decoder both have a sequential, data dependent flow of execution. This property makes it difficult to leverage the potential performance gain that could be achieved by the use of emerging many core processors.Dedicated silicon implementations of H.264/AVC codecs are presently available which can perform 30fps encode/decode for 1080p video sequences. Hardware implementations for each new video compression standard on different platform is costly enough. That is why we need a parallel software implementation of H.264/AVC codec that can perform as efficiently as the hardware implemen5 tation and can run on different hardware platforms. If the hardware platform changes the software implementation needs smaller amount of change than dedicated silicon implementation.1.2 ScopeIn this project, we consider an H.264 decoder and explore the possibilities of parallelism. There are a couple of reasons behind taking up the decoder (and not the encoder) as part of this parallelization effort. Firstly, the encoding problem is a natively parallel one, and hence, lends itself more naturally to a parallelized execution environment and there are already numerous successful attempts in this direction. However, the decoding algorithm poses certain challenges to parallelization. Secondly, there is a decoding step inside the encoder as well and therefore, any success in parallelizing the decoder would naturally expedite the encoder as well.The key task in parallelization of the H.264 decoder is to find a scheduler, which can distribute the decoder flow of execution into several cores efficiently. The scheduler must consider data dependency issues as well as inter-communication and synchronization between the processing units. There are many proposed schedulers for this core allocation, using different strategies. Performance of these schedulers depends on the scalability and hardware utilization it can achieve.Our objective is to find a scheduler which can allocate the processor cores for decoding in most efficient way so that the time to decode is optimized.

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Control Number

ISI-DISS-2011-291

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DOI

http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/6448

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