OpenMP Sample for Discrete Cosine Transform
Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT) and Quantization are the first two steps in JPEG compression standard. This sample demonstrates how DCT and Quantizing stages can be implemented to run faster using OpenMP* and Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB). In order to see the effect of quantization on the image, the output of Quantization phase is passed on to the de-quantizer followed by Inverse DCT and stored as an output image file. DCT is a lossy compression algorithm which is used to represent every data point value using infinite sum of cosine functions which are linearly orthogonal to each other. DCT is the first step of compression in the JPEG standard. The program shows the possible effect of quality reduction in the image when we do DCT followed by quantization like in JPEG compression. To visibly see the effects if any, the inverse operations (Dequantization and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT)) are done and output is saved as bitmap image. This sample uses a serial implementation of the 2D-DCT (Two Dimensional DCT) algorithm, a vectorized implementation of the algorithm (using OpenMP), parallelized implementation and finally a version which includes both threading and vectorization solution
Code Change Highlights:
Below are some snapshots of the code changes done in the application code to gain performance.
Performance Data:
Note: Modified Speedup shows performance speedup with respect to serial implementation.
Modified Speedup |
Compiler (Intel® 64) |
Compiler options |
System specifications |
OpenMP SIMD: 3.0x |
Intel® TBB: 4.0x |
Both: 9.8x |
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Intel® C++ Compiler 19.0 for Linux |
-O2 -xAVX -qopenmp |
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 |
Intel® Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz |
32GB memory |
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Build Instructions: