An Ebcot Based Stereoscopic Video Codec

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to state my sincere gratitude to Dr. Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn, my thesis advisor, for his valuable advice, excellent guidance and constant encouragement throughout my thesis period. Without his contributive help, this thesis would not have been completed successfully. Tripathi for their kind consideration to serve as my examination committee members, and their valuable comments and suggestions to enhance this work. I also would like to give the profound thank to Dr. for their munificent assistance and helpful discussion. I would like to extend my thanks to all faculty members for imparting invaluable knowledge, and also for my seniors, juniors, all Lap supervisors, staffs and friends for their warm friendship, kindness and encouragement. My sincere appreciation is comprehensive to Ms. Suthinee Thanapirom for her helpful elementary knowledge. Thanks are also due to the secretaries of Telecommunication Program for their kindness and useful help with smiles. I had been indebted to my donor, His Majesty the King of Thailand, for the full financial support. Without this support, I would not have been able to profoundly understand such invaluable knowledge gained from all people in AIT. Finally, all my deep and sincere thanks have been expressed to my parents and family members as well as my close friends for their love, moral support and constant encouragement. iii ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the realistic visual communication systems have been dramatically grown and have been useful for various purposes. So far, however, the amount of information of a three-dimensional imaging system has limited many commercial applications, since this system results in a two fold increase in bandwidth over the existing monoscopic channel bandwidth. Thus, the efficient compression algorithms are vital to reduce the size of data without sacrificing the perceived quality. This thesis has been set to develop a framework for stereo video compression by exploiting spatial correlation, temporal correlation and high correlation between stereo image pair in order to increase the quality of stereo video at the specific bit rate with the Embedded Block Coding with Optimized Truncation (EBCOT) coding. The proposed stereo video codec is composed of two sub-codecs for coding and decoding two image streams, namely the main stream that independently coded by an EBCOT video codec and, secondly, the auxiliary stream that is predicted based on disparity compensation and coded the residual frames. The experimental results of comparing the performance of the proposed codec with the …