Graph-based light fields representation and coding using geometry information

Abstract

This paper describes a graph-based coding scheme for light fields (LF). It first adapts graph-based representations (GBR) to describe color and geometry information of LF. Graph connections describing scene geometry capture inter-view dependencies. They are used as the support of a weighted Graph Fourier Transform (wGFT) to encode disoccluded pixels. The quality of the LF reconstructed from the graph is enhanced by adding extra color information to the representation for a sub-set of sub-aperture images. Experiments show that the proposed scheme yields rate-distortion gains compared with HEVC based compression (directly compressing the LF as a video sequence by HEVC).