To save the manufacturing cost, most color digital video cameras employ a single-sensor technology with a redgreen-blue (RGB) color filter array (CFA) to capture the realworld scenes. Due to only one primary color measured at each pixel location, the captured videos are usually referred to as the mosaic videos. For the purposes of economical storage and transmission, it is very important to achieve a good trade-off between the quality and bitrate when compressing mosaic videos with different RGB-CFA structures. In this paper, based on mathematical optimization technique, a novel chroma subsampling strategy is presented for compressing mosaic videos with arbitrary RGB-CFA structures in H.264/AVC and HEVC. For each 2 × 2 YUV block to be subsampled with 4:2:0 format, the proposed strategy determines the proper sampled U and V components by minimizing, prior to compression, the quality distortion between the original co-located mosaic block and the mosaic block conversed from the current subsampled YUV block. Through the mathematical optimization formulated in the proposed strategy, the significance of the sampled U and V components for reconstructing R, G, and B pixels can be simultaneously taken into consideration. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed chroma subsampling strategy has the best quality and bitrate trade-off at a similar execution-time requirement for compressing mosaic videos with arbitrary RGB-CFA structures in H.264/AVC and HEVC when compared with the state-of-the-art ones by Chen et al. and Yang et al. as well as the three commonly used ones.
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