Energy Efficient Embedded Video Processing Systems, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 A Hardware-Software Collaborative Approach

This book provides its readers with the means to implement energy-efficient video systems, by using different optimization approaches at multiple abstraction levels.  The authors evaluate the complete video system with a motive to optimize its different software and hardware components in synergy, increase the throughput-per-watt, and address reliability issues. Subsequently, this book provides algorithmic and architectural enhancements, best practices and deployment models for new video systems, while considering new implementation paradigms of hardware accelerators, parallelism for heterogeneous multi- and many-core systems, and systems with long life-cycles. Particular emphasis is given to the current video encoding industry standard H.264/AVC, and one of the latest video encoders (High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Background and State-of-the-Art.- Chapter 3. Energy-Efficient Video System Design.- Chapter 4. Energy-Efficient Software Design for Video Systems.- Chapter 5. Energy-Efficient Hardware Design for Video Systems.- Chapter 6. Benchmarks, Results and Analysis.- Chapter 7. Conclusion and Future Outlook.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.

Muhammad Usman Karim Khan is a Software Performance Analyst in IBM Deutschland

Research & Development GmbH, Böblingen, Germany, since Nov. 2015.  His responsibilities include leading a performance analysis group, collaboration with international teams, investigating enterprise software bottlenecks and reporting analysis to different teams, determining software-level best-practices and configurations to efficiently utilize hardware resources, investigating use-cases for hardware accelerators.

Muhammad Shafique is a Professor in the Embedded Computing Systems Group, of the  Department of Computer Engineering, at Vienna University of Technology.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) , Germany in 2011. Before, he was with Streaming Networks Pvt. Ltd.  (2003-06) and WorldCall Multimedia  (2001). Mr. Shafique received his B.Sc. Engineering degree (4 Gold Medals) from University of Engineering and Technology (UET)  Lahore, Pakistan in 2000. He then completed his Masters in Information Technology (2 Gold Medals) from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)  in 2003. He has also acquired an in-depth understanding of various video coding standards (HEVC , H.264/AVC , MVC, MPEG-1/2/4).

Prof. Dr. Jörg Henkel is currently with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he is directing the Chair for Embedded Systems CES. Before, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his PhD from Braunschweig University with "Summa cum Laude".

Prof. Henkel has/is organizing various embedded systems and low power ACM/IEEE conferences/symposia as General Chair and Program Chair and was a Guest Editor on these topics in various Journals like the IEEE Computer Magazine.

He was Program Chair of CODES'01, RSP'02, ISLPED’06, SIPS'08 and CASES'09, Estimedia'11, VLSI Design'12, ICCAD’12, PATMOS’13, NOCS’14 and serv