Successive refinement of side information for multi-view distributed video coding

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Ciobanu, L (Author) Other; Luís Corte-Real (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Multimedia Tools and Applications

Vol. 48 No. 3

Pages: 411-436

ISSN: 1380-7501

Publisher: Springer Nature

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 4 Citations

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-5E6

DOI: 10.1007/s11042-009-0315-7

Abstract (EN): Inter-camera registration in multi-view systems with overlapped views has a particularly long and sophisticated research history within the computer vision community. Moreover, when applied to Distributed Video Coding, in systems with at least one moving camera it represents a real challenge due to the necessary data at decoder for generating the side information without any a priori knowledge of each instant camera position. This paper proposes a solution to this problem based on successive multi-view registration and motion compensated extrapolation for on-the-fly re-correlation of two views at decoder. This novel technique for side information generation is codec-independent, robust and flexible with regard to any free motion of the cameras. Furthermore, it doesn't require any additional information from encoders nor communication between cameras or offline training stage. We also propose a metric for an objective assessment of the multi-view correlation performance.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 26