GPU-oriented architecture for an end-to-end image/video codec based on JPEG2000

Modern image and video compression standards employ computationally intensive algorithms that provide advanced features to the coding system. Current standards often need to be implemented in hardware or using expensive solutions to meet the real-time requirements of some environments. Contrarily to...

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Autores: de Cea Dominguez, Carlos|||0000-0002-0868-6479, Moure, Juan C.|||0000-0001-6697-0331, Bartrina-Rapesta, Joan|||0000-0002-1551-3680, Aulí Llinàs, Francesc|||0000-0002-3208-9957
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:234854
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/234854
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2985859
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Wavelet-based image coding
High-throughput image coding
JPEG2000
GPU
CUDA
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Sumario:Modern image and video compression standards employ computationally intensive algorithms that provide advanced features to the coding system. Current standards often need to be implemented in hardware or using expensive solutions to meet the real-time requirements of some environments. Contrarily to this trend, this paper proposes an end-to-end codec architecture running on inexpensive Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) that is based on, though not compatible with, the JPEG2000 international standard for image and video compression. When executed in a commodity Nvidia GPU, it achieves real time processing of 12K video. The proposed S/W architecture utilizes four CUDA kernels that minimize memory transfers, use registers instead of shared memory, and employ a double-buffer strategy to optimize the streaming of data. The analysis of throughput indicates that the proposed codec yields results at least 10× superior on average to those achieved with JPEG2000 implementations devised for CPUs, and approximately 4× superior to those achieved with hardwired solutions of the HEVC/H.265 video compression standard.