Optimizing Video Compression for Intel Digital Security Surveillance Applications With SIMD and Hyper-Threading Technology

Overview

The growing consciousness of the general public, government, and private industry drives the demand for tighter security. With the advent of new technologies, Digital Security Surveillance (DSS) is becoming an essential part of daily life. Today's sophisticated surveillance solutions require scalability to support high numbers of video channels, higher throughput at the Input/Output (I/O) interface, processor performance to handle sophisticated algorithms, and reliable high-volume data storage. Video compression is one of the most computationally demanding modules in DSS applications. This paper provides an introduction to the video compression performance improvements that can be achieved by features enabled in current Intel Architecture Processors.