Omnidirectional video coding using latitude adaptive down‐sampling and pixel rearrangement. Issue 10 (1st May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lee, S.‐H.; Kim, S.‐T.; Yip, E.; Choi, B.‐D.; Song, J.; Ko, S.‐J.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 53:Issue 10(2017)
• Page Start: 655
• Page End: 657
• Publication Date: 2017-05-01
• Subjects: video coding -- data compression; omnidirectional video coding -- latitude adaptive down‐sampling -- pixel rearrangement -- spherical domain -- planar domain -- video compression techniques -- equirectangular projection method -- ERP method -- sphere‐to‐plane mapping -- visual redundancies -- data compression scheme -- bitrate reduction; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.0035
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : Projection of omnidirectional videos in the spherical domain onto the planar domain is required to utilise existing video compression techniques. Due to its simplicity, the equirectangular projection (ERP) method has been widely adopted for sphere‐to‐plane mapping. However, the coding efficiency of the ERP method is inefficient because the ERP video includes visual redundancies in the high latitude areas of the sphere. To solve this problem, this Letter presents an efficient data compression scheme that employs latitude adaptive down‐sampling followed by pixel rearrangement. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a bitrate reduction of up to 28.9%, as compared with the ERP.