Wireless sensor networks find applications everywhere in day to day activities right from
attendance entry systems to healthcare monitoring systems. The evolution of the Internet of …

A cross-layer design space exploration (DSE) method based on a proposed co-simulation
technique is presented herein. The proposed method is demonstrated evaluating the …

In this paper, we propose an efficient approximate sum of absolute differences (SAD)
hardware with very small maximum and average error for FPGAs. The proposed …

Video coding requires a massive computational effort leading to large power dissipation and
energy consumption. Thus, energy efficiency becomes a significant concern especially …

Approximate computing techniques exploit the characteristics of error-tolerant applications
either to provide faster implementations of their computational structures or to achieve …

Video compression is a computationally intensive task that generally demands high
performance for portable device application. This high performance is mainly attained by …

Current mobile devices need to be equipped with dedicated hardware for video
encoding/decoding to achieve high performance and to be capable of real-time processing …

Current and emerging systems for high-throughput applications, such as machine learning,
cloud computing, and real-time video encoding demand real-time processing computations …

Integer motion estimation performs a pivotal role in achieving video compression by
exploiting the temporal redundancy of video sequences. However, the motion estimation's …

Approximate computing is a technique for optimising algorithms while taking into account
both application quality of service and computational complexity. Video encoding is a …