A fast and memory efficient Huffman decoding method for the MPEG-4 AAC standard

Gutemberg G.S. Júnior, Mateus A.M. Lima, Walter O.G. Filho, Angelo Perkusich, Marcos R.A. Morais, Antonio Marcus N. Lima

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Abstract

Huffman coding is an efficient coding technique that is largely used in applications that need a lossless data compression. We present in this paper a novel method for Huffman decoding that increases the performance and keeps the memory consumption low. The main idea is to add information about the number of bits necessary to search for the next possible symbol in the Huffman tree. The proposed method has been used in the implementation of an MPEG-4 AAC decoder, and has proven to be extremely fast to decode short symbols that are the ones with higher probability to occur in a bitstream.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on Consumer Electronics, The Mobile Consumer, ICCE 2008
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event26th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, The Mobile Consumer, ICCE 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 9 Jan 200813 Jan 2008

Publication series

NameDigest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
ISSN (Print)0747-668X

Conference

Conference26th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, The Mobile Consumer, ICCE 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period9/01/0813/01/08

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