Dynamic light field compression using shared fields and region blocks for streaming service

  • Authors:
  • Yebin Liu;Qionghai Dai;Wenli Xu;Zhihong Liao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advanced Concepts For Intelligent Vision Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The multi-view simul-switching is one of the most important features of dynamic light field (DLF) streaming. In this paper, we jointly consider light field rendering and compression and propose a novel DLF compression scheme based on the requirements of DLF streaming. In this scheme, successive temporal prediction chains are broken and a shared field is used as a reference for all the later P frames in a group of field. Meanwhile, considering the region of interest for DLF rendering, we partition all the P frames into regional blocks and code them in a manner that any region block can be independently transmitted for bandwidth economized streaming. With this coding scheme, a multi-camera DLF system is developed to verify the streaming performance of the proposed scheme. Experimental results show that our scheme saves the per-user transmission bandwidth a lot compared with other DLF compression schemes.