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In multiview video, a number of cameras capture the same scene from different viewpoints. There can be significant variations in the color of views captured with different cameras, which negatively affects performance when the videos are compressed with inter-view prediction. In this letter, a method is proposed for correcting the color of multiview video sets as a preprocessing step to compression. Unlike previous work, where one of the captured views is used as the color reference, we correct all views to match the average color of the set of views. Block-based disparity estimation is used to find matching points between all views in the video set, and the average color is calculated for these matching points. A least-squares regression is performed for each view to find a function that will make the view most closely match the average color. Experimental results show that when multiview video is compressed with Joint Multiview Video Model, the proposed method increases compression efficiency by up to 1.0 dB in luma peak signalto-noise ratio (PSNR) compared to compressing the original uncorrected video.Index Terms-Color correction, disparity estimation, multiview video coding (MVC), video processing.

Abstract-We propose a novel symmetry-based technique for scalable lossless compression of 3D medical image data. The proposed method employs the 2D integer wavelet transform to decorrelate the data and an intraband prediction method to reduce the energy of the sub-bands by exploiting the anatomical symmetries typically present in structural medical images. A modified version of the embedded block coder with optimized truncation (EBCOT), tailored according to the characteristics of the data, encodes the residual data generated after prediction to provide resolution and quality scalability. Performance evaluations on a wide range of real 3D medical images show an average improvement of 15% in lossless compression ratios when compared to other state-of-the art lossless compression methods that also provide resolution and quality scalability including 3D-JPEG2000, JPEG2000, and H.264/AVC intra-coding.

There has been significant interest in developing a scalable version of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. As expected, the HEVC scalable video version increases the complexity of the codec compared to the nonscalable counterpart. In this paper, we propose an adaptive early-termination interlayer motion prediction mode search that significantly reduces HEVC/SVC's coding complexity by up to 85.77%, while maintaining the overall bitrate.

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