Description

Abstract

                  Recent   work   on   depth   map   compression   has revealed the importance of

incorporating a description of dis- continuity  boundary  geometry  into  the  compression

 scheme. We propose a novel compression strategy for depth maps that incorporates

geometry information while achieving the goals of scalability and embedded representation.

Our scheme involves two  separate  image  pyramid  structures,  one  for  breakpoints and

the other for sub-band samples produced by a breakpoint- adaptive  transform.