Algorithms for Efficient and Fast 3D-HEVC Depth Map Encoding

Description

This book describes and analyzes in detail the encoding effort and the encoding tool usage applied to 3D-HEVC depth map coding. Based on the analyzed information, the authors introduce efficient algorithms for accelerating the available encoding tools. The contributions discussed in this book include four algorithms for reducing intra-frame encoding effort and three algorithms for reducing inter-frame encoding effort. The presented results demonstrate several levels of encoding effort reduction with different impacts in the encoding efficiency, surpassing state-of-the-art solutions by more than 50% the encoding effort with only 0.3% encoding efficiency loss. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 1-6 3D-HEVC Background (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 7-25 State-of-the-Art Overview (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 27-34 Encoding Time Reduction for 3D-HEVC Intra-Frame Prediction of Depth Maps (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 35-62 Novel Encoding Time Reduction Algorithms for the 3D-HEVC Inter-Frame Prediction (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 63-76 Conclusions and Open Research Possibilities (Gustavo Sanchez, Luciano Agostini, César Marcon)....Pages 77-78 Back Matter ....Pages 79-83