prediction-guided quantization for video tone mapping

Agnès Le Dauphin; Ronan Boitard; Dominique Thoreau; Yannick Olivier; Edouard Francois; Fabrice LeLéannec

doi:10.1117/12.2062907

23 September 2014 Prediction-guided quantization for video tone mapping

Agnès Le Dauphin, Ronan Boitard, Dominique Thoreau, Yannick Olivier, Edouard Francois, Fabrice LeLéannec

Proceedings Volume 9217, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVII; 92170B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062907
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Tone Mapping Operators (TMOs) compress High Dynamic Range (HDR) content to address Low Dynamic Range (LDR) displays. However, before reaching the end-user, this tone mapped content is usually compressed for broadcasting or storage purposes. Any TMO includes a quantization step to convert floating point values to integer ones. In this work, we propose to adapt this quantization, in the loop of an encoder, to reduce the entropy of the tone mapped video content. Our technique provides an appropriate quantization for each mode of both the Intra and Inter-prediction that is performed in the loop of a block-based encoder. The mode that minimizes a rate-distortion criterion uses its associated quantization to provide integer values for the rest of the encoding process. The method has been implemented in HEVC and was tested over two different scenarios: the compression of tone mapped LDR video content (using the HM10.0) and the compression of perceptually encoded HDR content (HM14.0). Results show an average bit-rate reduction under the same PSNR for all the sequences and TMO considered of 20.3% and 27.3% for tone mapped content and 2.4% and 2.7% for HDR content.

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Agnès Le Dauphin, Ronan Boitard, Dominique Thoreau, Yannick Olivier, Edouard Francois, and Fabrice LeLéannec "Prediction-guided quantization for video tone mapping", Proc. SPIE 9217, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVII, 92170B (23 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062907

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