An EBCOT based stereoscopic video codec | |
| Author | Nantheera Anantrasirichai |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.TC-03-06 |
| Subject(s) | Video compression Image compression |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. TC-03-06 |
| 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 DCT based stereo video codec and ZTE based stereo video codec show outperforms in coding both main and auxiliary streams. Apart from the significant PSNR gain, proposed codec has various other advantages such as easier to control the desired size, SNR scalability, resolution scalability, smaller buffer need, random access capability and good error resilience. Therefore, the EBCOT based stereoscopic video codec is highly attractive for the next generation of multimedia communications. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. TC-03-06 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Telecommunications (TC) |
| Chairperson(s) | Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Ahmed, Kazi M. ;Tripathi, Nitin Kumar ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | His Majesty the King of Thailand; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |