Video coding for digital cinema

Author

Chen, Peisong ; Woods, John W.

Author_Institution

Center for Next Generation Video, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

In this paper, we present several techniques to improve the efficiency of motion-compensated 3-D subband/wavelet video coding for digital cinema (DC). Since DC data coming from scanning photographic film contains film-grain noise, we introduce one level spatial subband decomposition to reduce the noise, and impose motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) only on the spatial LL subbands. Also we make the GOP size adaptive to better handle motion complexity and editing effects. In order to realize approximately constant quality in a full length motion picture, we propose to interleave the subbands of the temporal frames, and encode all the GOPs to the same fractional bit plane using the EZBC coder.

Keywords

cinematography; digital filters; motion compensation; transform coding; video coding; wavelet transforms; DC data; EZBC coder; GOP size; MCTF; digital cinema; editing effects; film-grain noise; full length motion picture; motion complexity; motion-compensated 3-D subband/wavelet video coding; motion-compensated temporal filtering; spatial LL subbands; spatial subband decomposition; temporal frames; Displays; Environmental economics; Motion estimation; Motion pictures; Noise level; Noise reduction; PSNR; Standardization; TV; Video coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7622-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2002.1038133

Filename

1038133