Chrominance Compensation for Multi-View Video Coding

Min-Woo PARK  Jong-Tae PARK  Gwang-Hoon PARK  Doug-Young SUH 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.2  pp.353-356
Publication Date: 2009/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Image Processing and Video Processing
Keyword: 
multimedia system,  MPEG,  multi-view video coding,  3D video, 

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Summary: 
This letter introduces a cost-effective chrominance compensation scheme. The proposed method is applied to both 'INTER 1616' and 'SKIP' modes in only anchor P-pictures. By testing using JVT common test condition, simulation results show that proposed method can obtain average BD-PSNR gains for U and V as 0.14 dB and 0.13 dB, respectively while maintaining almost the same BD-PSNR's for Y. For the range of low bit-rate, it is observed that average BD-PSNR gains for Y, U and V are 0.14 dB, 0.49 dB and 0.53 dB, respectively. Necessary computational complexity is very marginal because the number of anchor P-pictures is very small in comparison with whole coded video sequences. However it can be found that the proposed method can significantly improve the coding efficiencies of color components.