HD-VideoBench. A Benchmark for Evaluating High Definition Digital Video Applications

Mauricio Alvarez,Esther Salamí,Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero
Department of Computer Architecture. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Barcelona Supercomputing Center-CNS, Spain

HiPEAC European Network of Excellence

{alvarez,esalami}(AT)ac.upc.edu
{alex.ramirez,mateo.valero}(AT)bsc.es

HD-VideoBench is a benchmark devoted to High Definition (HD) digital video processing. It includes a set of video coders and decoders (Codecs) for the MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC video coding standards. The applications were carefully selected taken into account the quality and portability of the code, the representativeness of the video application domain, the availability of high performance optimizations and the distribution under a free license. Additionally, HD-VideoBench defines a set of input sequences and configuration parameters of the video Codecs which are appropriate for the HD video domain.