Optimized Solution to Accelerate in Hardware an Intra H.264/SVC Video Encoder

This paper introduces a real-time intra H.264/SVC encoder CMOS 180 nm implementation. Results confirmed it as an efficient approach that is able to encode up to 16 layers for 1080p videos at 30 fps.

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