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The increasing use of more resource-intensive multimedia applications in communication has made it essential to ensure better utilization of available computing resources. At the same time, energy consumption has turned out to be one of the most important resource constraints in modern systems. Digital videos are an important part of multimedia, and a large number of video standards are currently available. In this paper, we work on the most commonly used video standard named H.264. We propose a method to reduce the energy consumption involved in video decoding by selective degradation of video quality. Experiments on the LIVE video database show that our proposed method is quite effective in practice.
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Bhattacharya, A., Banerjee, A., Sur-Kolay, S. (2014). Energy-Aware H.264 Decoding. In: Natarajan, R. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04483-5_21
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