Acquisition, processing and coding of 3D holoscopic content for immersive video systems

In the continuous effort to develop new multimedia content formats able to support more immersive and close to reality user experiences, 3D holoscopic imaging became lately an appealing technology, allowing a more natural and immersive 3D sensation with continuous full motion parallax, opening also new post-processing degrees of freedom, such as refocusing or viewing angle adjustments after content acquisition. In this context, this paper presents some novel achievements in 3D holoscopic content acquisition and processing. An improved coding solution for 3D holoscopic video based on the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard and the recently proposed self-similarity compensated prediction concept is also presented that substantially improves the coding performance of HEVC for this type of content for both Intra- and Inter-coding.