Hardware Design for 3D Video Coding: Energy-Efficient and High-Throughput Architectures for Multiview Plus Depth Video Content
暫譯: 3D視頻編碼的硬體設計：多視角加深度視頻內容的能效與高通量架構

本書專注於基於多視角加深度（MVD）技術的3D視頻系統所面臨的研究與開發挑戰。這項技術能夠在解碼器端生成合成視頻視圖，提供真實的沉浸式體驗，同時減少編碼器端的信息量。本書中所討論的內容探討了MVD的特性，以提出高通量和節能的架構/系統，重點關注3D-HEVC，這是利用MVD概念的最先進標準。本書包括對3D-HEVC視頻編碼的廣泛討論，隨後對3D-HEVC參考軟體的行為進行深入評估。接著，本書詳細介紹了一組針對3D-HEVC內部三個主要預測步驟的高通量和節能架構：幀內預測、幀間預測和視圖間預測。

Vladimir Afonso received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the Sul-rio-grandense Federal Institute (IFSul), Pelotas, RS, Brazil, in 2008, the M.S. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), RS, Brazil, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree on microelectronics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in 2019. He is a Professor since 2009 at the IFSul and a researcher with the Video Technology Research Group (ViTech) at the UFPel. His research interests include 2D/3D video-coding algorithms, and FPGA-based and VLSI designs for video coding.

Murilo Perleberg received the B.S. degree in computer engineering and the M.S. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science at UFPel. He is a member of the Video Technology Research Group, UFPel. His research interests include VLSI design for video coding.

Bruno Zatt received his B.E. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the PGMICRO (Graduate Program on Microelectronics) at the same university in 2012 with "summa cum laude" distinction. Currently, Bruno Zatt is a Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Pelotas, Brazil, and a member of the Group of Architectures and Integrated Circuits (GACI) and the Video Technology Research Group (ViTech). He has 19+ years of research experience os digital signal processing including 3 years as an intern researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1-year experience as a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and as visiting professor at the Università di Torino, Turin, Italy. He has published over 190+ papers in international journals/conferences and one book entitled "3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices". His expertise includes visual signal processing and coding standards such as 2D video coding (H.264, HEVC, AV1, VVC), multiview video coding (MVC), 3D video coding (3D-HEVC), and Light Fields coding (JPEG Pleno). He holds the status of IEEE Senior Member (since 2016) and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) productivity research fellow (since 2017). He has coordinated several research projects funded by public (FAPERGS, CNPq, CAPES) and private funding agencies (Instituto Serrapilheira). Prof. Zatt also contributes as a member of the Brazilian Committee on Audio, Image, Multimedia and Hypermedia Coding (under ABNT - Brazilian Association of Technical Standards), a member of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society (SBMICRO) council, and a member of IEEE CASS Visual Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee (VSPC-TC). He served for four years as an adjunct coordinator and two years as coordinator of the Graduate Program in Computing at UFPel. Prof. Zatt also contributes as Coeditor of the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICS), Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ-SP), and Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT).

Marcelo Schiavon Porto is a Brazilian Distinguished Researcher holding a CNPq PQ-1D grant. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, and a member of the Video Technology Research Group (ViTech) and the Group of Architectures and Integrated Circuits (GACI). He is currently a permanent member and advisor of doctor and master's students at the Graduate Program in Computing (PPGC) of UFPel. He also has been holding the status of CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) Productivity Research Fellow, since 2016. His research interests include video coding, motion estimation algorithms, point cloud compression, coding complexity reduction, and energy-efficient VLSI design for video coding. Prof. Porto is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of SBC and SBMicro Brazilian societies.

Luciano Volcan Agostini is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), where he has been a faculty member since 2002. Currently, he is a CNPq Productivity Research Fellow (PQ) in category 1C and serves as Vice-President of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society (SBMicro). He founded and leads the Video Technology Research Group (ViTech) at UFPel. From 2017 to 2018, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Lisbon. He earned his Ph.D. (2007) and M.Sc. (2002) in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Agostini previously served as UFPel's Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies (2013-2017) and as President of the Pelotas Municipal Council of Science and Technology (2013-2017). His work has earned him numerous best paper awards, and he has played an active role in organizing events internationally. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), and Frontiers in Imaging. His research focuses on hardware design for image and video compression, machine learning-based video compression algorithms, and AV1, VVC, VP9, HEVC, and H.264/AVC encoders. He also investigates 3D, 360, light fields, and point clouds coding, as well as digital design with FPGAs, ASICs, and microelectronics. Agostini is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and ACM societies, and an active member of SBMicro and Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) societies.

Altamiro Amadeu Susin was born in Vacaria-RS (Brazil) in 1945. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 1972 and 1977, respectively, and a PhD in Computer Engineering - Microelectronics from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble-France in 1981. He spent one year at McGill University, Montreal-Canada (1997/8) as a researcher in the mixed-signal group. He is a professor, now retired, in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UFRGS, responsible for the disciplines of Analog and Digital Electronics in the graduate and undergraduate courses, where he worked for over 40 years. He is also or was a member of the Graduate Programs in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics at UFRGS. His main research interests are Integrated Circuit Architecture, Systems on Chip and Networks on Chip for complex multi-core systems and Signal Processing with over 50 technical papers published in these areas. He is/was responsible for several publicly and/or industrially funded R&D projects covering electronic instrumentation, audio and image processing, digital TV and computer vision for medical instrumentation, robotics and driving assistance and has supervised over a hundred graduate and undergraduate students. He has also designed and organized conferences and workshops on the above mentioned topics. He was vice-president and president of the Brazilian Society of Microelectronics and has participated as a member of committees of several research funding entities.

弗拉基米爾·阿方索（Vladimir Afonso）於2008年在巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦學院（Sul-rio-grandense Federal Institute, IFSul）獲得工業自動化學士學位，2013年在巴西佩洛塔斯聯邦大學（Federal University of Pelotas, UFPel）獲得計算機科學碩士學位，2019年在巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦大學（Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS）獲得微電子學博士學位。他自2009年起擔任IFSul的教授，並且是UFPel視頻技術研究小組（Video Technology Research Group, ViTech）的研究員。他的研究興趣包括2D/3D視頻編碼算法，以及基於FPGA和VLSI的視頻編碼設計。

穆里洛·佩爾勒貝格（Murilo Perleberg）於2018年和2020年分別在巴西佩洛塔斯聯邦大學（UFPel）獲得計算機工程學士學位和計算機科學碩士學位。他目前正在UFPel攻讀計算機科學博士學位，並且是UFPel視頻技術研究小組的成員。他的研究興趣包括視頻編碼的VLSI設計。

布魯諾·扎特（Bruno Zatt）於2006年和2008年分別在巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦大學（UFRGS）獲得計算機工程學士學位和碩士學位。他於2012年在同一所大學的PGMICRO（微電子研究生計劃）獲得微電子學博士學位，並以「優等生」（summa cum laude）榮譽畢業。目前，布魯諾·扎特是巴西佩洛塔斯聯邦大學（UFPel）的教授，並且是集成電路架構小組（Group of Architectures and Integrated Circuits, GACI）和視頻技術研究小組（ViTech）的成員。他擁有超過19年的數位信號處理研究經驗，包括在德國卡爾斯魯厄理工學院（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT）擔任實習研究員3年，在美國加州大學爾灣分校（University of California, Irvine）擔任訪問教授1年，以及在意大利都靈大學（Università di Torino）擔任訪問教授。他在國際期刊和會議上發表了超過190篇論文，並出版了一本名為《嵌入式設備的3D視頻編碼》（3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices）的書籍。他的專業領域包括視覺信號處理和編碼標準，如2D視頻編碼（H.264、HEVC、AV1、VVC）、多視角視頻編碼（MVC）、3D視頻編碼（3D-HEVC）和光場編碼（JPEG Pleno）。他是IEEE高級會員（自2016年起）和CNPq（國家科學與技術發展委員會）生產力研究獎學金獲得者（自2017年起）。他協調了多個由公共（FAPERGS、CNPq、CAPES）和私人資助機構（Instituto Serrapilheira）資助的研究項目。扎特教授還作為巴西音頻、影像、多媒體和超媒體編碼委員會的成員（隸屬於ABNT - 巴西技術標準協會）、巴西微電子學會（SBMICRO）理事會成員，以及IEEE CASS視覺信號處理與通信技術委員會（VSPC-TC）成員。他曾擔任UFPel計算研究生計劃的副協調員四年，並擔任協調員兩年。扎特教授還擔任《集成電路與系統期刊》（Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, JICS）的共同編輯、《IEEE開放信號處理期刊》（IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, OJ-SP）的副編輯，以及《IEEE電路與系統視頻技術期刊》（IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, TCSVT）的高級副編輯。

馬塞洛·斯基亞沃恩·波爾托（Marcelo Schiavon Porto）是一位巴西傑出研究員，持有CNPq PQ-1D獎學金。他於2008年和2012年分別在巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦大學（UFRGS）獲得計算機科學碩士和博士學位。目前，他是巴西佩洛塔斯聯邦大學（UFPel）的教授，並且是視頻技術研究小組（ViTech）和集成電路架構小組（GACI）的成員。他目前是UFPel計算研究生計劃（PPGC）的永久成員和博士及碩士生的指導老師，自2016年以來，他也一直是CNPq（國家科學與技術發展委員會）生產力研究獎學金獲得者。他的研究興趣包括視頻編碼、運動估計算法、點雲壓縮、編碼複雜度降低以及針對視頻編碼的能效VLSI設計。波爾托教授是IEEE的高級會員，也是巴西計算機學會（SBC）和巴西微電子學會（SBMicro）的成員。

盧西亞諾·沃爾坎·阿戈斯蒂尼（Luciano Volcan Agostini）是巴西佩洛塔斯聯邦大學（UFPel）的全職教授，自2002年以來一直擔任教職。目前，他是CNPq生產力研究獎學金獲得者（PQ）1C類別，並擔任巴西微電子學會（SBMicro）副會長。他創立並領導UFPel的視頻技術研究小組（ViTech）。從2017年到2018年，他在里斯本大學進行了博士後研究。他於2007年獲得巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦大學（UFRGS）計算機科學博士學位，並於2002年獲得碩士學位。阿戈斯蒂尼曾擔任UFPel的研究與研究生學習副校長（2013-2017）以及佩洛塔斯市科學與技術委員會主席（2013-2017）。他的工作獲得了多個最佳論文獎，並在國際上積極參與組織活動。他是《IEEE電路與視頻技術期刊》（IEEE Transactions on Circuits for Video Technology, TCSVT）、《IEEE開放電路與系統期刊》（IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, OJCAS）和《影像前沿》（Frontiers in Imaging）的副編輯。他的研究重點是圖像和視頻壓縮的硬體設計、基於機器學習的視頻壓縮算法，以及AV1、VVC、VP9、HEVC和H.264/AVC編碼器。他還研究3D、360度、光場和點雲編碼，以及使用FPGA、ASIC和微電子技術的數位設計。阿戈斯蒂尼是IEEE和ACM社會的高級會員，也是SBMicro和巴西計算機學會（SBC）的活躍成員。

阿爾塔米羅·阿馬德烏·蘇辛（Altamiro Amadeu Susin）於1945年出生於巴西瓦卡里亞（Vacaria-RS）。他於1972年獲得電氣工程學位，1977年獲得碩士學位，均來自巴西南里奧格蘭德聯邦大學（UFRGS），並於1981年在法國格勒諾布爾國立工藝學院（Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble）獲得計算機工程-微電子學博士學位。他曾在加拿大蒙特利爾的麥吉爾大學（McGill University）混合信號小組擔任研究員一年（1997/8）。他是UFRGS電氣工程系的教授，現已退休，負責研究生和本科課程中的模擬和數位電子學科目，並在該領域工作超過40年。他也是UFRGS計算機科學、電氣工程和微電子學研究生計劃的成員。他的主要研究興趣包括集成電路架構、系統單晶片和多核心系統的網路單晶片，以及信號處理，並在這些領域發表了超過50篇技術論文。他負責過多個公共和/或工業資助的研發項目，涵蓋電子儀器、音頻和影像處理、數位電視和醫療儀器的計算機視覺、機器人技術和駕駛輔助，並指導過超過一百名研究生和本科生。他還設計和組織了與上述主題相關的會議和研討會。他曾擔任巴西微電子學會的副會長和會長，並參與多個研究資助機構的委員會。