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Low-power VLSI Architecture Design for Image Scaler and Coefficients Optimization  

Han, Jae-Young (Dept. of Computer Eng., Kwangwoon Univ.)
Lee, Seong-Won (Dept. of Computer Eng., Kwangwoon Univ.)
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Abstract
Existing image scalers generally adopt simple interpolation methods such as bilinear method to take cost-benefit, or highly complex architectures to achieve high quality resulting images. However, demands for a low power, low cost, and high performance image scaler become more important because of emerging high quality mobile contents. In this paper we propose the novel low power hardware architecture for a high quality raster scan image scaler. The proposed scaler architecture enhances the existing cubic interpolation look-up table architecture by reducing and optimizing memory access and hardware components. The input data buffer of existing image scaler is replaced with line memories to reduce the number of memory access that is critical to power consumption. The cubic interpolation formula used in existing look-up table architecture is also rearranged to reduce the number of the multipliers and look-up table size. Finally we analyze the optimized parameter sets of look-up table, which is a trade-off between quality of result image and hardware size.
Keywords
cubic interpolation; scaler; hardware implementation; LUT; look-up table;
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