Integral Video Coding

................................................................................................................ i Acknowledgements ............................................................................................. ii List of Figures ...................................................................................................... v List of Equations ................................................................................................ vi List of Tables ...................................................................................................... vi Abbreviations ..................................................................................................... vii Chapter 1 ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Problem description .......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Thesis outline .................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2 .............................................................................................................. 4 2.1 3-dimensional imaging ...................................................................................... 4 2.1.1 3D imaging basics ...................................................................................... 4 2.1.1.1 Depth perception .................................................................................... 4 2.1.1.2 Depth cues in the human visual system ................................................... 4 2.1.1.3 Depth map .............................................................................................. 5 2.1.2 Conventional 3D techniques....................................................................... 6 2.1.3 Integral Imaging......................................................................................... 7 2.2 Light field photography ..................................................................................... 8 2.3 The Light field camera Lytro............................................................................. 9 2.3.1 The camera structure ................................................................................ 10 2.3.2 The camera features ................................................................................. 10 2.3.3 The Lytro file formats .............................................................................. 12 2.4 The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard and its extensions ........ 13 2.4.1 The HEVC Standard ................................................................................ 14 2.4.2 The Multiview extension of HEVC (MV-HEVC) ..................................... 15 2.5 Assessment metric .......................................................................................... 16 2.5.1 Subjective assessment .............................................................................. 16