Bayer to YUV420 Conversion

Steve Boone

Hello,

We are using the DM8168. We are reading images over the SATA port that are encoded using the Bayer format. We need to convert these images to YUV420 so that they can be encoded to H.264. We are wondering what would be the best method to do this? Our initial thought is to use Codec engine and implement our own algorithm that runs on the DSP. Has anyone done this before? Is so, how did you do it?

Thanks, Steve

over 12 years ago

0 Rajat Sagar over 12 years ago

TI__Expert 8780 points

Steve,

DM8168 doesnt include the ISS (Imaging sub system) and the image pipeline which does BAYER to YUV colorspace conversion.

I think you may want to consider using DM8127/DM8147 processors which have the image pipeline.

Regards

Rajat

0 Steve Boone over 12 years ago in reply to Rajat Sagar

Intellectual 660 points

Thanks Rajat. We have already selected and designed a product around the DM8168. We need a way to run "conversion" algorithms (e.g. Bayer to YUV420) on recorded images. We figured that we could use the DSP in DM8168 to do this. Is this not possible? We used to use C6Accel but that seems to be have been removed from the latest EZSDK.

0 Rajat Sagar over 12 years ago in reply to Steve Boone

TI__Expert 8780 points

Hi Steve,

I think it should be possible to do. But, i am not aware of implementation details and any example of doing that. Hope someone else in the forum can help on this.

Regards

Rajat

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