Optimized inter-view prediction based light field image compression with adaptive reconstruction

In this paper, we explore the structure of light field (LF) and efficiently improve the performance of the pseudo sequence based lenslet image compression, by optimized sub-view rearrangement, enhanced illumination compensation and adaptive reconstruction filtering. First, the decomposed sub-view images are rearranged into a pseudo sequence according to our optimized scan order based on sub-view correlation. Second, the generated pseudo sequence is compressed with JEM codec in which we enhance the illumination compensation by adaptively selecting reference pixels used in parameter derivation. Finally, to reduce the distortions in lenslet image decomposition and reconstruction, we propose an lenslet reconstruction method by applying adaptive filters to the reconstructed lenslet images to compensate the reconstruction errors. Each filter is derived by minimizing the distortions between the original and reconstructed pixels with same geolocation in the lenslet image. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method achieves up to 53.7% bit rate reduction over HEVC intra coding and 34.8% over JEM intra coding in terms of BDBR.