%0 Journal Article %T GPU-based 3D Lower tree Wavelet Video Encoder %A Vicente Galiano %A Otoniel L¨®pez-Granado %A Manuel P Malumbres %A Leroy Anthony Drummond and Hector Migall¨®n %J EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing %D 2013 %I %R 10.1186/1687-6180-2013-24 %X The 3D-DWT is a mathematical tool of increasing importance in those applications that require an efficient processing of huge amounts of volumetric info. Other applications like professional video editing, video surveillance applications, multi-spectral satellite imaging, HQ video delivery, etc, would rather use 3D-DWT encoders to reconstruct a frame as fast as possible. In this article, we introduce a fast GPU-based encoder which uses 3D-DWT transform and lower trees. Also, we present an exhaustive analysis of the use of GPU memory. Our proposal shows good trade off between R/D, coding delay (as fast as MPEG-2 for High definition) and memory requirements (up to 6 times less memory than x264). %U http://asp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2013/1/24/abstract