In this paper, we describe a multi-hypothesis prediction technique for
disparity-compensated light field compression.
Multi-hypothesis prediction has been used extensively in video compression.
In this work, we apply multi-hypothesis prediction to the problem of light
field compression.
Most current techniques for light field compression utilze some form of
disparity compensation with one hypothesis.
We demonstrate that a multi-hypothesis approach, where two hypotheses are
used, improves the overall efficiency of a light field coder.
Our experimental results show an image quality gain of up to 1 dB in PSNR
on our test data sets.
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