• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.118-127
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• 2014

This paper presents an efficient motion and disparity prediction method for multi-view video coding based on the high efficient video coding (HEVC) standard. The proposed method exploits inter-view candidates for effective prediction of the motion or disparity vector to be coded. The inter-view candidates include not only the motion vectors of adjacent views, but also global disparities across views. The motion vectors coded earlier in an adjacent view were found to be helpful in predicting the current motion vector to reduce the number of bits used in the motion vector information. In addition, the proposed disparity prediction using the global disparity method was found to be effective for interview predictions. A multi-view version based on HEVC was used to evaluate the proposed algorithm, and the proposed correspondence prediction method was implemented on a multi-view platform based on HEVC. The proposed algorithm yielded a coding gain of approximately 2.9% in a high efficiency configuration random access mode.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.37-48
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• 2008

Generally, a motion vector and a disparity vector represent the motion information of an object in a single-view of camera and the displacement of the same scene between two cameras that located spatially different from each other, respectively. Conventional H.264/AVC does not use the disparity vector in the motion vector prediction because H.264/AVC has been developed for the single-view video. But, multi-view video coding that uses the inter-view prediction structure based on H.264/AVC can make use of the disparity vector instead of the motion vector when the current frame refers to the frame of different view. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an improved motion/disparity vector prediction method that consists of global disparity vector replacement and extended neighboring block prediction. From the experimental results of the proposed method compared with the conventional motion vector prediction of H.264/AVC, we achieved average 1.07% and 1.32% of BD (Bjontegaard delta)-bitrate saving for ${\pm}32$ and ${\pm}64$ of global vector search range, respectively, when the search range of the motion vector prediction is set to ${\pm}16$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.56-65
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• 2009

Stereoscopic images consist of the left image and the right image. Thus, stereoscopic images have much amounts of data than single image. Then an efficient image compression technique is needed, the DPCM-based predicted coding compression technique is used in most video coding standards. Motion and disparity estimation are needed to realize the predicted coding compression technique. Their performing algorithm is block matching algorithm used in most video coding standards. Full search algorithm is a base algorithm of block matching algorithm which finds an optimal block to compare the base block with every other block in the search area. This algorithm presents the best efficiency for finding optimal blocks, but it has very large computational loads. In this paper, we have proposed fast disparity estimation algorithm using motion and disparity vector information of the prior frame in stereo image coding. We can realize fast disparity vector estimation in order to reduce search area by taking advantage of global disparity vector and to decrease computational loads by limiting search points using motion vectors and disparity vectors of prior frame. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance in the simple image sequence than complex image sequence. We conclude that the fast disparity vector estimation is possible in simple image sequences by reducing computational complexities.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.328-338
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• 2008

Multi-view video coding (MVC) based on H.264/AVC encodes multiple views efficiently by using a prediction scheme that exploits inter-view correlation among multiple views. However, with the increase of the number of views and use of inter-view prediction among views, total encoding time will be increased in multiview video coding. In this paper, we propose a fast mode decision using both MB(Macroblock)-based region segmentation information corresponding to each view in multiple views and global disparity vector among views in order to reduce encoding time. The proposed method achieves on average 40% reduction of total encoding time with the objective video quality degradation of about 0.04 dB peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) by using joint multi-view video model (JMVM) 4.0 that is the reference software of the multiview video coding standard.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.259-262
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 다시점 비디오와 깊이 정보의 상관도를 이용해서 현재 JVT(joint video team)에서 표준화 된 다시점 비디오 부호화 (multi-view video coding : MVC)의 참조 소프트웨어인 JMVM(joint multi-view video model)을 기반으로 하여 효율적인 다시점 비디오 압축 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 일반적인 비디오 부호화 방식은 단일 시점에 대한 비디오 부호화 기술이기 때문에 다시점 비디오 전송을 위해서는 시점 당 각각 전송 채널에 필요하다. 하지만 다시점 비디오 부호화 기법을 이용하게 되면, 단일 전송 채널을 이용하여 전송이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법은 입력된 다시점 입력 영상과 해당 하는 깊이 정보를 이용하여 시점 간의 예측 방법의 효율성을 높였다. 다시점 입력 영상과 깊이 정보의 전역 변이 벡터 (global disparity vector : GDV)의 상관도를 이용하였으며, 다시점 영상과 깊이 정보를 동시에 전송해야 할 경우 복잡도를 낮출 수 있고, 약 $0.01{\sim}0.1dB$의 PSNR 이득을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.788-792
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a method that uses the constrained inter-view prediction for multi-view video coding. In the multi-view video, there exists occluded area because of the locations and angles of cameras. This increases the computational complexity, as it still uses both reference pictures for predicting the area which is not shown in the current frame. In this paper, we propose a method that does not use the inter-view prediction in cases of the occluded macroblocks. Experimental results show that benefits about 4% can be achieved compared with the conventional approaches.