Evaluation of 4D Light Field Compression Methods

Autor: David Barina, Tomas Chlubna, Pavel Zemcik, Drahomir Dlabaja, Marek Solony
Přispěvatelé: Skala, Václav
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
FOS: Computer and information sciences
Exploit
Computer science
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
02 engineering and technology
Compression method
ztrátová komprese
Image (mathematics)
Computer Science - Graphics
lossy compression
Compression (functional analysis)
plenoptic imaging
FOS: Electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

light field
Computer vision
změna zaměření obrazu
světelné pole
business.industry
Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
020207 software engineering
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
Graphics (cs.GR)
Multimedia (cs.MM)
image refocusing
Transmission (telecommunications)
plicní zobrazení
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Artificial intelligence
business
Computer Science - Multimedia
Light field
Data compression
Image compression
Popis: Light field data records the amount of light at multiple points in space, captured e.g. by an array of cameras or by a light-field camera that uses microlenses. Since the storage and transmission requirements for such data are tremendous, compression techniques for light fields are gaining momentum in recent years. Although plenty of efficient compression formats do exist for still and moving images, only a little research on the impact of these methods on light field imagery is performed. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of state-of-the-art image and video compression methods on quality of images rendered from light field data. The methods include recent video compression standards, especially AV1 and XVC finalised in 2018. To fully exploit the potential of common image compression methods on four-dimensional light field imagery, we have extended these methods into three and four dimensions. In this paper, we show that the four-dimensional light field data can be compressed much more than independent still images while maintaining the same visual quality of a perceived picture. We gradually compare the compression performance of all image and video compression methods, and eventually answer the question, "What is the best compression method for light field data?".
accepted for publication and presentation at the WSCG 2019
Databáze: OpenAIRE