3-D Shape-Adaptive Directional Wavelet Transform for Object-Based Scalable Video Coding

  • Authors:

  • Yu Liu;King Ngi Ngan;Feng Wu

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a 3-D shape-adaptive directional wavelet coding technique for object-based scalable video coding. This technique includes 3-D object-based directional threading and extensions of weighted adaptive lifting (WAL) scheme. The 3-D object-based directional threading, which unifies the concept of temporal motion threading and 2-D spatial directional threading, provides the opportunities to align a series of video object planes to form a 3-D video object and exploit the spatio-temporal correlation inside the 3-D video object. The WAL scheme, which is extended from 2-D frame-based image coding to 3-D object-based video coding, is employed to decompose the 3-D video object into a 3-D multispatio-temporal resolution video object pyramid for object-based scalable video coding. Experimental results show that the proposed 3-D shape-adaptive directional wavelet coding technique consistently outperforms MPEG-4 and other wavelet-based schemes for coding arbitrarily shaped video objects.