Title
Interpreting Plenoptic Images As Multi-View Sequences For Improved Compression
Abstract
Over the last decade, advancements in optical devices have made it possible for new novel image acquisition technologies to appear. Angular information for each spatial point is acquired in addition to the spatial information of the scene that enables 3D scene reconstruction and various post-processing effects. Current generation of plenoptic cameras spatially multiplex the angular information, which implies an increase in image resolution to retain the level of spatial information gathered by conventional cameras. In this work, the resulting plenoptic image is interpreted as a multi-view sequence that is efficiently compressed using the multi-view extension of high efficiency video coding (MV-HEVC). A novel two-dimensional weighted prediction and rate allocation scheme is proposed to adopt the HEVC compression structure to the plenoptic image properties. The proposed coding approach is a response to ICIP 2017 Grand Challenge: Light field Image Coding. The proposed scheme outperforms all ICME-contestants, and improves on the JPEG-anchor of ICME with an average PSNR gain of 7.5 dB and the HEVC-anchor of ICIP 2017 Grand Challenge with an average PSNR gain of 2.4 dB.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
2017 24TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Light field, plenoptic, MV-HEVC
Field
DocType
ISSN
Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Compression (physics),Pattern recognition,Computer science,Image coding,Image properties,Light field,Coding (social sciences),Artificial intelligence,Image resolution
Conference
1522-4880
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.40
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Waqas Ahmad172.84
Roger Olsson2617.41
Mårten Sjöström317419.69