Publications by Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer

CAL Dataflow Components for an MPEG RVC AVC Baseline Encoder

Marco Mattavelli, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ehab Hanna, Karim Maarouf, Hussein Aman-Allah

Springer, Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com2011

Building Multimedia Security Applications in the MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

2011

Methodology and Technique to Improve Throughput of FPGA-based CAL Dataflow Programs: Case Study of the RVC MPEG-4 SP Intra Decoder

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman, Hossam Amer

The specification of complex signal processing systems in hardware by means of HDL is no longer the appropriate way since they are known to be time consuming to design, and less flexible to extend features. Recently, \CAL dataflow language was specified to ...

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Towards a Multi-Granular RVC VTL: A Case Study of CAL Transformations on the ISO/IEC MPEG Fixed Point IDCT

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer

Recent advances in digital video hardware, software and coding standards have led to a wide variety of digital video products. However, such continuous evolution leads to the necessity of regular replacements of the available multimedia devices. To avoid t ...

2009

AVC Entropy Coding for MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Hussein Aman-Allah

The emergence of the Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) Standard has led to the development of its accompanying decoding Video Tool Library (VTL). This library is comprised of a set of video coding tool also referred to as Functional Units (FUs) that are co ...

2009

MPEG RVC Compliant Intra Prediction for AVC

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Karim Maarouf

Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) aims to provide a framework allowing a dynamic development, implementation and adoption of standardized video coding solutions with features of higher flexibility and re-usability. RVC-CAL is a dataflow oriented language w ...

2009

Reconfigurable Video coding on Multicore An overview of its main objectives

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ghislain Roquier

The current monolythic and lengthy scheme behind the standardization and the design of new video coding standards is becoming inappropriate to satisfy the dynamism and changing needs of the video coding community. Such scheme and specification formal- ism ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Towards a Comprehensive RVC VTL: A CAL Description of an Efficient AVC Baseline Encoder

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ehab Hanna, Karim Maarouf, Hussein Aman-Allah

The Video Tool Library (VTL) is one of the major normative components of the Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard. It specifies the set of functional units (FUs)that may be interchangeably combined and connected to form different video codecs, with v ...

2009

CAL Dataflow Components For an MPEG RVC AVC Baseline Encoder

Marco Mattavelli, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ehab Hanna, Karim Maarouf, Hussein Aman-Allah

In this paper, an efficient H.264/AVC baseline encoder, described in RVC-CAL actor language, is introduced. The main aim of the paper is two folds: a) to demonstrate the flexibility and ease that is provided by RVC-CAL, which allows for efficient implement ...

2009

An MPEG RVC AVC Baseline Encoder Based on a Novel Iterative Methodology

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Ehab Hanna, Karim Maarouf, Hussein Aman-Allah

With the emergence of new generations of multicore architectures, the need for efficient multimedia algorithm implementations has become critical. This paper describes a new methodology for efficient implementations of algorithms targeting reconfigurable a ...

2009

A Simplified 8 × 8 Transformation And Quantization Real-Time Ip-Block For MPEG-4 H.264/AVC Applications: A New Design Flow Approach

Marco Mattavelli, Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer

Current multimedia design processes suffer from the excessively large time spent on testing new IP-blocks with references based on large video encoders specifications (usually several thousands lines of code). The appropriate testing of a single IP-block m ...

2007