System perspective on embedded multimedia

Today's user demand for multimedia has moved into an anywhere anytime paradigm. The ubiquitous usage model creates lots of needs for embedded multimedia system design, and traditional module-wise design concept will not suffice. In this talk, the system design view of modern VLSI architectures for multimedia applications, including H.264, scalable video coding (SVC) and stereo/3D video coding, will be reviewed. In addition, several emerging applications, where machine-to-machine and machine-to-human design factors also become important, like distributed video coding (DVC), free-viewpoint TV and intelligent image recognition, will also be introduced. With the growth of these embedded architecture researches, we can expect a fruitful future of multimedia ICs and systems.