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- From: ahp@cs.bham.ac.uk (Anthony H Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression.research
- Subject: DCT optimisation
- Message-ID: <C1L49B.9ML@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 22:10:22 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
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- Organization: The University of Birmingham Computer Science Department.
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- I am a final year undergraduate doing a software engineering project in Digital Video.
- I have implemented a number of image compression algorithms that run on Sun Unix
- workstations, among these is a JPEG and MPEG codec. I should immediately add that these
- are not true compliant codecs but merely abstract the core ideas present in them. The
- problem I have is that I am currently using the standard fast DCT algorithm, but even
- with the speed of a Sun/4 processor I cannot get more than a frame a second at 160 by
- 120 image size. I have already scaled the algorithm into integer maths that helped a
- lot but I am stuck for the next move. I have also implemented a fairly sophisticated
- motion estimation system which allows me to miss out well matched blocks completely
- if the error between the motion estimated blocks and the actual block is below a given
- threshold, this obviously presents one way of speeding up the process by simply not
- doing an inverse DCT on every block !
- Any thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated. Anthony Phillips.
-