Title :
Reduced resolution depth compression for multiview video plus depth coding
Author :
Zhang, Qiuwen ; An, Ping ; Zhang, Yan ; Zhang, Qian ; Zhang, Zhaoyang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Commun. & Inf. Eng., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Multiview video plus depth (MVD) is a new 3D video format that would support 3D video applications. The primary goals are the high-quality reconstruction of an arbitrary number of views for 3D television (3DTV) and free viewpoint television (FTV). Its quality depends highly on the quality of depth image, a depth compression base B-spline interpolation is proposed for MVD to improve the 3D video coding (3DVC). The depth map is down sampling prior to multiview video coding (MVC) encoding and up sampling after decoding. The results investigated by objective as well as subjective evaluations over several multi-view test sequences imply that the proposed methods reduce the bit-rate for depth coding and achieve better rendering quality.
Keywords :
television; video coding; 3D television; B-spline interpolation; decoding; depth coding; free viewpoint television; multiview video plus depth; sampling; video coding; Bit rate; Encoding; Low pass filters; Maximum likelihood detection; Nonlinear filters; Rendering (computer graphics); Three dimensional displays; 3D video coding (3DVC); depth compression; multiview video coding (MVC); multiview video plus depth (MVD);
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing (ICSP), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5897-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2010.5656057
