STREAM-BASED COMPUTING AND FUTURE TELEVISION

This paper explains the concept of stream-based processing and describ es why it is a good match to video data. Stream-based computing combin ed with automatic resource allocation can make the parallelization of the computation automatic at run-time, permitting scalable computing ( the Same software runs on differently configured systems) and multitas king. Within this framework, the implementation of streams on several hardware architectures is discussed, as well as various ways to apply the lessons learned to future programmable hardware for digital video processing.