Performance Evaluation of Motion Estimation on TMS320DM642

Motion estimation is a well-studied problem and researchers are coming up with new algorithms. The aim of this paper is to implement a motion estimation algorithm on a embedded device and to evaluate the performance. For this purpose a Texas Instrument TMS320DM642 evaluation module with TVP video decoder is being explored, and motion estimation algorithm based on ¿Three Step Search¿ is to be implemented on DM642 platform. Windows XP is chosen as the operating system and code composer studio is chosen as the software platform for the development of the algorithm on DM642 EVM. DSP-BIOS link is used for inter-processor communication.