A hardware design of a massive-parallel, modular NN-based vector quantizer for real-time video coding

This report describes the design of a modular, massive-parallel, neural-network (NN)-based vector quantizer for real-time video coding. The NN is a self-organizing map (SOM) that works only in the training phase for codebook generation, only at the recall phase for real-time image coding, or in both phases for adaptive applications. The neural net can be learned using batch or adaptive training and is controlled by an inside circuit, finite-state machine-based hard controller. The SOM is described in VHDL and implemented on electrically (FPGA) and mask (standard-cell) programmable devices.