System scheduling analysis for high definition multiview video encoder

In recent years, 3D related applications, including 3D movie and 3DTV, are getting more and more attentions. In order to make the real-time 3D applications feasible, efficient multiview video coding (MVC) scheme is desired. However, the system throughput requirement on a high definition (HD) MVC encoder is at least two times higher than the current highest throughput H.264/AVC encoder design. In order to meet the target HD MVC specifications, the system scheduling analysis for the HD MVC encoder is performed in this paper. By the 8-stage MB pipeline system architecture with view-parallel MB-interleaved system scheduling and other in-core computation optimizations, the proposed HD MVC encoder design provides about 339% to 1536% higher system throughput than the previous HD H.264/AVC encoder chips and therefore the real-time HD MVC encoding can be achieved.