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A new approach to spatial compression of stereoscopic videos

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This paper presents a new spatial compression method specifically designed for stereo videos. Different form current compressors, which simply apply known 2D compression techniques, the method proposed here was developed taking into account specificities of the components of the spatial compression process which may impact the correct depth visualization, named Chrominance Subsampling, Discrete WaveletTransform (DWT) and Quantization. Each component was evaluated analyzing where datalosses occur and proposing ways to provide a good balance between compression ratio and image quality, minimizing losses in depth perception. The evaluations were made using standard objective (PSNR) and subjective (DSCQS) metrics, applied to an anaglyphic stereoscopic video base. The results showedour method is competitive regarding compression rate and providessuperior image quality.

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  1. Parallax is defined as the change in the apparent location of an object or features as viewing position changes.

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The authors would like to thank FAPESP and CNPq Brazilian agencies for their financial support on this project.

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  1. Depto.de Artes e Comunicação, Federal Universityof São Carlos, Rod. Washington Luiz, Km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Leonardo A. de Andrade

  2. Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universityof São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador São Carlense, 400, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Matheus R. U. Zingarelli, Rodolfo R. Silva & Rudinei Goularte

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de Andrade, L.A., Zingarelli, M.R.U., Silva, R.R. et al. A new approach to spatial compression of stereoscopic videos. Multimed Tools Appl 71, 1673–1697 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1300-0

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