Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding

We propose a Stereoscopic Visual Attention- (SVA-) based regional bit allocation optimization for Multiview Video Coding (MVC) by the exploiting visual redundancies from human perceptions. We propose a novel SVA model, where multiple perceptual stimuli including depth, motion, intensity, color, and...

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Main Authors: Yun Zhang, Gangyi Jiang, Mei Yu, Ken Chen, Qionghai Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/848713
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author Yun Zhang
Gangyi Jiang
Mei Yu
Ken Chen
Qionghai Dai
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Gangyi Jiang
Mei Yu
Ken Chen
Qionghai Dai
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description We propose a Stereoscopic Visual Attention- (SVA-) based regional bit allocation optimization for Multiview Video Coding (MVC) by the exploiting visual redundancies from human perceptions. We propose a novel SVA model, where multiple perceptual stimuli including depth, motion, intensity, color, and orientation contrast are utilized, to simulate the visual attention mechanisms of human visual system with stereoscopic perception. Then, a semantic region-of-interest (ROI) is extracted based on the saliency maps of SVA. Both objective and subjective evaluations of extracted ROIs indicated that the proposed SVA model based on ROI extraction scheme outperforms the schemes only using spatial or/and temporal visual attention clues. Finally, by using the extracted SVA-based ROIs, a regional bit allocation optimization scheme is presented to allocate more bits on SVA-based ROIs for high image quality and fewer bits on background regions for efficient compression purpose. Experimental results on MVC show that the proposed regional bit allocation algorithm can achieve over 20∼30% bit-rate saving while maintaining the subjective image quality. Meanwhile, the image quality of ROIs is improved by 0.46∼0.61 dB at the cost of insensitive image quality degradation of the background image.
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spelling doaj.art-c403ca83f7f647e3b4c81946e0ba18722022-12-22T02:41:12ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing1687-61721687-61802010-01-01201010.1155/2010/848713Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video CodingYun ZhangGangyi JiangMei YuKen ChenQionghai DaiWe propose a Stereoscopic Visual Attention- (SVA-) based regional bit allocation optimization for Multiview Video Coding (MVC) by the exploiting visual redundancies from human perceptions. We propose a novel SVA model, where multiple perceptual stimuli including depth, motion, intensity, color, and orientation contrast are utilized, to simulate the visual attention mechanisms of human visual system with stereoscopic perception. Then, a semantic region-of-interest (ROI) is extracted based on the saliency maps of SVA. Both objective and subjective evaluations of extracted ROIs indicated that the proposed SVA model based on ROI extraction scheme outperforms the schemes only using spatial or/and temporal visual attention clues. Finally, by using the extracted SVA-based ROIs, a regional bit allocation optimization scheme is presented to allocate more bits on SVA-based ROIs for high image quality and fewer bits on background regions for efficient compression purpose. Experimental results on MVC show that the proposed regional bit allocation algorithm can achieve over 20∼30% bit-rate saving while maintaining the subjective image quality. Meanwhile, the image quality of ROIs is improved by 0.46∼0.61 dB at the cost of insensitive image quality degradation of the background image.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/848713
spellingShingle Yun Zhang
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Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
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title Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
title_full Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
title_fullStr Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
title_full_unstemmed Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
title_short Stereoscopic Visual Attention-Based Regional Bit Allocation Optimization for Multiview Video Coding
title_sort stereoscopic visual attention based regional bit allocation optimization for multiview video coding
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/848713
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