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3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2012; 01/2012
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Proceedings of PCS 2012; 01/2012
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3DTV-Conference: The True Vision-Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON); 01/2012
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3D video technologies and services, special issue of Annals of Telecommunications. 01/2012;
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ABSTRACT: 3DTV technology has brought out new challenges such as the question of synthesized views evaluation. Synthesized views are generated through a depth image-based rendering (DIBR) process. This process induces new types of artifacts whose impact on visual quality has to be identified considering various contexts of use. While visual quality assessment has been the subject of many studies in the last 20 years, there are still some unanswered questions regarding new technological improvement. DIBR is bringing new challenges mainly because it deals with geometric distortions. This paper considers the DIBR-based synthesized view evaluation problem. Different experiments have been carried out. They question the protocols of subjective assessment and the reliability of the objective quality metrics in the context of 3DTV, in these specific conditions (DIBR-based synthesized views), and they consist in assessing seven different view synthesis algorithms through subjective and objective measurements. Results show that usual metrics are not sufficient for assessing 3-D synthesized views, since they do not correctly render human judgment. Synthesized views contain specific artifacts located around the disoccluded areas, but usual metrics seem to be unable to express the degree of annoyance perceived in the whole image. This study provides hints for a new objective measure. Two approaches are proposed: the first one is based on the analysis of the shifts of the contours of the synthesized view; the second one is based on the computation of a mean SSIM score of the disoccluded areas.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 12/2011; · 2.88 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The efficient compression of multi-view-video-plus-depth (MVD) data raises the bit-rate allocation issue for the compression of texture and depth data. This question has not been solved yet because not all surveys reckon on a shared framework. This paper studies the impact of bit-rate allocation for texture and depth data relying on the quality of an intermediate synthesized view. The results show that depending on the acquisition configuration, the synthesized views require a different ratio between the depth and texture bit-rate: between 40% and 60% of the total bit-rate should be allocated to depth.
3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2011; 06/2011
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ABSTRACT: This paper describes an Incremental algorithm for Layer Depth Image construction (I-LDI) from multi-view plus depth data sets. A solution to sampling artifacts is proposed, based on pixel interpolation (inpainting) restricted to isolated unknown pixels. A solution to ghosting artifacts is also proposed, based on a depth discontinuity detection, followed by a local foreground/background classification. We propose a formulation of warping equations which reduces time consumption, specifically for LDI warping. Tests on Break-dancers and Ballet MVD data sets show that extra layers in I-LDI contain only 10% of first layer pixels, compared to 50% for LDI. I-LDI Layers are also more compact, with a less spread pixel distribution, and thus easier to compress than LDI Visual rendering is of similar quality with I-LDI and LDI.
3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, 2009; 06/2009
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ABSTRACT: The compression efficiency of distributed video-coding (DVC) suffers from the necessity of transmitting a large number of key-frames which are intra-coded. This paper describes a new 3D model-based DVC approach which reduces the key- frame frequency. The decoder first recovers a 3D model from the key-frames. It then predicts the intermediate frames by projecting it onto 2D image planes and applying image-based rendering techniques. This paper also introduces a new quasi-DVC method relying on a limited point tracking at the encoder. It greatly improves the prediction PSNR, while only slightly increasing the encoder complexity. It also allows the encoder to adaptively select the key-frames based on the video motion-content
Image Processing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on; 11/2006
