EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN AND POWER-RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION FOR VIDEO ENCODING UNDER ENERGY CONSTRAINTS

—–Without their love, support and sacrifices, this work could not have been accomplished. ACKNOWLEGEMENTS I would hereby like to whole-heartedly thank my advisor, Prof. Zhihai He, for providing excellent guidance throughout the course of this work. I would like thank members of my thesis committee, Prof. Justin Legarsky and Prof. Ye Duan, for their thorough review of this thesis. I express my deepest and most sincere gratitude to my committee members. I would like also thank Mr. Jim Fischer for his assistance in setting up the experiment environment of this thesis. He was very patient and cooperative every time I asked for his help. To my colleagues, graduate students Xi Chen, Jay Eggert, and Xiwen Zhao, I would like to express my thanks for their help in experiments. Specially, I express my thanks to Xi Chen for his great help in our collaboration on the energy-aware video encoder design