Dynamically reconfigurable architecture for real time adaptation of H264/AVC-SVC video streams

This paper presents a dynamically reconfigurable architecture
for real time video adaptation in order to address
different terminals and bandwidths. This architecture is designed
to adapt a compressed stream in advanced video
coding standard (H264/AVC) using the scalable extension
(H264/SVC) with additional refinement in quality transcoding.
A low quality and high quality streams requiring different
architectures are considered to validate the proposed
reconfigurable architecture. Simulation results and hardware
implementation have shown the capabilities of this architecture
to transcode high definition video in real time. In
addition, a significant gain has been obtained in terms of
silicon area using dynamic partial reconfiguration.