A Novel High Performance Architecture for H.264/AVC Deblocking Filtering

  • Lopez, Sebastian (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Tobajas, Felix (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Callico, Gustavo M. (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Perez, Pedro A. (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • De Armas, Valentin (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Lopez, Jose F. (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Sarmiento, Roberto (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
  • Received : 2006.12.01
  • Published : 2007.06.30

Abstract

This letter presents an architecture based on a new double-filter strategy to perform the adaptive in-loop filtering process specified by the H.264/AVC standard. The proposed architecture shows considerable advantages, both in terms of hardware cost and latency, when compared with the approaches found in the most recent literature.

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