An adaptive non-uniform quantization method is proposed to reduce the distortion due to the depth data quantization in free-viewpoint television(FTV)system using the ordinary non-uniform quantization method. The proposed method determines the valid depth sub-spaces according to the statistical distribution characteristics of the depth data. Then
these depth sub-spaces are finely divided to form an adaptive quantization look-table. Finally
the original depth data are adaptively quantized using the quantization look-table. Experimental results and comparisons with the ordinary non-uniform depth data quantization method show that the proposed method improves the quantization signal-to-noise ratio of the depth data by an average of 20 dB. Thus the adaptive non-uniform quantization method can significantly reduce the quantization distortion of the depth data
and benefits the high-accurate reconstruction of the depth data and the better subject visual effect of the synthesized image at the receiver of the FTV system.
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