Global view and depth format for FTV

Author

Ishibashi, Takashi ; Yendo, Tomohiro ; Tehrani, Mehrdad Panahpour ; Fujii, Toshiaki ; Tanimoto, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We propose a novel 3D space representation for multi-view video, using epipolar plane depth images (EPDI). Multi-view video plus depth (MVD) is used as common data format for FTV(Free-viewpoint TV), which enables synthesizing virtual view images. Due to the large amount of data and complexity of the multi-view video coding (MVC), compression of MVD is a challenging issue. We address this problem and propose a new representation that is constructed from MVD using ray-space. MVD is converted into image and depth ray-spaces. The proposed representation is obtained by converting each of ray-spaces into a global depth map and a KL transformed global view using EPDI. Experiments demonstrate the analysis of this representation, and its efficiency.

Keywords

data compression; digital television; image representation; video coding; 3D space representation; common data format; depth ray-spaces; free viewpoint TV; global depth map; image ray-spaces; multiview video coding; multiview video plus depth; virtual view images; Cameras; Indexes; EPDI; EPI; FTV; Global Depth Map; Global View; Ray-Space;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2011 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0273-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDSP.2011.6005013

Filename

6005013