ABSTRACT:In order to attain perfect reconstruction, subband decomposition of arbitrarily shaped objects requires special strategies to deal with the decimation problem. One of the two strategies described in this paper (scheme 1) inserts pixels with amplitudes equal to the mean values of the neighboring ones belonging to the object. The requirement of transmitting (coding) these pixels reduces the coding gain and is avoided by the second strategy (scheme 2) examined in this paper. This strategy determines specific values of the pixels added to the object in such a way that they result in predefined amplitudes after decimation. For this reason, this method outperforms scheme 1. PSNR versus bit rate are presented for two objects.
Resumo -0 coditicador de cadeia diferencial (CCD) e uma das estrategias mais utilizadas para codifica~ao de fom1a, sem perdas, em aplica~6es de compressao de video baseada em objeto. Neste artigo sao identificadas e avaliadas di versas modifica~6es de urn CCD, que visam 0 aumento de eficiencia dessa estrutura. Nesse sentido, aumentou-se 0 numero de classes de predi~ao espacial em urn CCD condi cional e buscou-se explorar de forma mais efetiva e in tegrada as correla~6es espaciais e temporais entre os pixels de contomo do objeto. As moditica~6es que proporcionaram maior compacta~ao da informa~ao de forma, em rela~ao aos metodos encontrados na literatura, foram incorporadas aos tres esquemas propostos neste artigo: 0 CCD condicional adaptativo, 0 CCD condicionado ao quadro corrente e 0 CCD condicionado ao quadro anterior. Em todos os casos foram tambem considerados os efeitos de cada uma das possiveis escolhas da tabela de codigos de Huffman sobre a taxa de compressao final.Palavras-chave: Processamento de Imagens, Compressao de Video Baseada em Objetos, Codifica~ao de Forma.Abstract -In applications of object-based video compres sion, one of the most efficient strategies for lossless coding of object shapes is the differential chain coder (DCC). In this paper, several modifications of a DCC are identified and ana lyzed with the purpose of improving its efficiency. The num ber of spatial prediction classes in a conditional DCC was in creased. In addition, we explored in a more effective and in tegrated form, the spatial and temporal correlations between pixels of the object contour. As compared to the methods available in the literature, the modifications that provided the highest compaction of the shape information were incorpo rated to the three schemes proposed in this paper: the adap tive conditional DCC, the DCC conditioned to the current frame and the DCC conditioned to the previous frame. In all cases, we have also considered the effects of different choices for the
INTRODUCAOAlem da codifica~ao da intensidade (textura) e dos parametros de movimento, a codifica~ao de forma e urn dos pre-requisitos essenciais da representa~ao digital de video baseada em objeto. Dada a importancia da forma para a quali dade subjetiva da imagem, e a necessidade dessa informa~ao para a codifica~ao de vfdeo baseada em objeto, metodos efi cientes para codifica~ao (ou compacta~ao, no caso sem per das) tern atraido muita aten~ao nos ultimos anos. Esse in teresse tern sido especialmente estimulado pelo papel funda mental da representa~ao de fom1a no padrao MPEG-4 para compressao digital de video [I].Os codificadores baseados em mapas de bits indicam, para cada pixel, se ele pertence ou nao ao objeto. Os baseados em contomos codificam 0 contomo do objeto. 0 segundo tende a ser mais eficiente e menos redundante, pois 0 mapa de bits correspondente a urn objeto pode ser obtido do seu contomo pelo preenchimento do seu interior. Isso tern moti vado urn grande numero de trabalhos sobre representa~ao de forma baseada em contomos.Vma das es...
This paper presents a mathematical formulation of shape-adaptive (SA) two-dimensional (2-D) transforms. A generic SA transform is represented by a concatenation of three linear operators that characterize the one-dimensional (1-D) vertical transforms, the alignment of vertical coefficients, and the 1-D horizontal transforms. We state and prove several powerful properties of these operators. The mathematical formulation described in this paper may serve as an important theoretical basis for future developments in the area of object-based video coding.
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