DCDM-Intra: Dynamically Configurable 3D-HEVC Depth Maps Intra-Frame Prediction Algorithm

This work proposes the Dynamically Configurable 3D-HEVC Depth Maps Intra-Frame Prediction (DCDM-Intra), which explores the fact that Rough Mode Decision (RMD) was inherited from texture coding without taking advantages of the depth maps simplicity. DCDM-Intra classifies the HEVC Intra-frame Prediction Modes (IPMs) according to their BD-rate impact when encoding depth maps. Then, the application or the user can dynamically define the number of IPMs supported by the depth maps intra-prediction, according to the system status or application requirements, removing the IPMs that less affect the encoding efficiency. DCDM-Intra allows 35 distinct operation points with different encoding efficiency impacts. Experimental results demonstrate that the exclusion of 20% of IPMs causes a BD-rate increase of 0.03%, and the removal of almost 51% of IPMs rises 0.11% the BD-rate.

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