Kuhn P. Algorithms, Complexity Analysis and VLSI Architectures for MPEG-4 Motion Estimation

Dordrecht: Springer, 1999. — 242 p.An overview of and discussion on VLSI complexity metrics and the basic components of ME architectures for MPEG-4 is provided. With reference to this design space of basic components, algorithm-specific, flexible and programmable VLSI architectures are discussed for a number of ME algorithms. Based on this discussion, the basic architectures for a high throughput MPEG-4 ME architecture, supporting optionally luminance- corrected full-search variable block size ME (Search Engine I) and a lowpower ME architecture, are derived for several fast ME algorithms (Search Engine II).