This book provides its readers with the means to implement energy-efficient video systems by
using different optimization approaches at multiple abstraction levels. The authors evaluate
the complete video system with a motive to optimize its different software and hardware
components in synergy increase the throughput-per-watt and address reliability issues.
Subsequently this book provides algorithmic and architectural enhancements best practices and
deployment models for new video systems while considering new implementation paradigms of
hardware accelerators parallelism for heterogeneous multi- and many-core systems and systems
with long life-cycles. Particular emphasis is given to the current video encoding industry
standard H.264 AVC and one of the latest video encoders (High Efficiency Video Coding HEVC).
