A Comprehensive Review of Software and Hardware Energy Efficiency of Video Decoders

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Main Authors: Kränzler, Matthias, Herglotz, Christian, Kaup, André
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Published: 2024
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author Kränzler, Matthias
Herglotz, Christian
Kaup, André
author_facet Kränzler, Matthias
Herglotz, Christian
Kaup, André
contents Energy and compression efficiency are two essential parts of modern video decoder implementations that have to be considered. This work comprehensively studies the following six video coding formats regarding compression and decoding energy efficiency: AVC, VP9, HEVC, AV1, VVC, and AVM. We first evaluate the energy demand of reference and optimized software decoder implementations. Furthermore, we consider the influence of the usage of SIMD instructions on those decoder implementations. We find that AV1 is a sweet spot for optimized software decoder implementations with an additional energy demand of 16.55% and bitrate savings of -43.95% compared to VP9. We furthermore evaluate the hardware decoding energy demand of four video coding formats. Thereby, we show that AV1 has energy demand increases by 117.50% compared to VP9. For HEVC, we found a sweet spot in terms of energy demand with an increase of 6.06% with respect to VP9. Relative to their optimized software counterparts, hardware video decoders reduce the energy consumption to less than 9% compared to software decoders.
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spellingShingle A Comprehensive Review of Software and Hardware Energy Efficiency of Video Decoders
Kränzler, Matthias
Herglotz, Christian
Kaup, André
Image and Video Processing
Energy and compression efficiency are two essential parts of modern video decoder implementations that have to be considered. This work comprehensively studies the following six video coding formats regarding compression and decoding energy efficiency: AVC, VP9, HEVC, AV1, VVC, and AVM. We first evaluate the energy demand of reference and optimized software decoder implementations. Furthermore, we consider the influence of the usage of SIMD instructions on those decoder implementations. We find that AV1 is a sweet spot for optimized software decoder implementations with an additional energy demand of 16.55% and bitrate savings of -43.95% compared to VP9. We furthermore evaluate the hardware decoding energy demand of four video coding formats. Thereby, we show that AV1 has energy demand increases by 117.50% compared to VP9. For HEVC, we found a sweet spot in terms of energy demand with an increase of 6.06% with respect to VP9. Relative to their optimized software counterparts, hardware video decoders reduce the energy consumption to less than 9% compared to software decoders.
title A Comprehensive Review of Software and Hardware Energy Efficiency of Video Decoders
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09001