LOW-COMPLEXITY LOSSLESS CODING OF ASYNCHRONOUS EVENT SEQUENCES FOR LOW-POWER CHIP INTEGRATION
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES OY (FINLAND) CO., LTD.
Ionut Schiopu, Radu Ciprian Bilcu
ABSTRACT
The event sensor provides high temporal resolution and generates large amounts of raw event data. Efficient low-complexity coding solutions are required for integration into low-power event-processing chips with limited memory. In this paper, a novel lossless compression method is proposed for encoding the event data represented as asynchronous event sequences. The proposed method employs only low-complexity coding techniques so that it is suitable for hardware implementation into low-power event-processing chips. A first, novel, contribution consists of a low-complexity coding scheme which uses a decision tree to reduce the representation range of the residual error. The decision tree is formed by using a triplet threshold parameter which divides the input data range into several coding ranges arranged at concentric distances from an initial prediction, so that the residual error of the true value information is represented by using a reduced number of bits.
