A low complexity reconfigurable DCT architecture to trade off image quality for power consumption
Abstract
In this paper we present a low complexity discrete cosine transform (DCT) architecture based on computation re-use in vector-scalar product. 1-D DCT operation is expressed as additions of vector-scalar products and basic common computations are identified and shared to reduce computational complexity in 1-D DCT operation. Compared to general distributed arithmetic based DCT architecture, the proposed DCT shows 38% of area and 18% of power savings with little performance degradation. We also propose an efficient method to trade off image quality for computational complexity. The approach is based on the modification of DCT bases in bit-wise manner and different computational complexity/image quality trade-off levels are suggested. Finally, based on the above approaches, we propose a low complexity DCT architecture, which can dynamically reconfigure from one trade-off level to another. The reconfigurable DCT architecture can achieve power savings ranging from 28% to 56% for 3 different trade-off levels.
Keywords
Architecture, Clutches, Commerce, Computational complexity, Cosine transforms, Discrete cosine transforms, Electric fault location, Energy conservation, Image quality, Mathematical techniques, Power quality, Vectors
Date of this Version
January 2008
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-008-0242-2
Published in:
Journal of Signal Processing Systems 53,3 (2008) 399-410;
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