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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Lossless and Near-Lossless L-Infinite Compression of Depth Video Data.

Mohammad Ali Tahouri, Alin Adrian Alecu, Leon Denis, Adrian Munteanu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Mohammad Ali TahouriDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Alin Adrian AlecuFaculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages (FILS), Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie Politehnica Bucuresti, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.
Leon DenisDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Adrian MunteanuDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-7290-0428

Funding

Innoviris MUSCLES
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The acquisition of depth information sensorial data is critically important in medical applications, such as the monitoring of the elderly or the extraction of human biometrics. In such applications, compressing the stream of depth video data plays an important role due to bandwidth constraints on transmission channels. This paper introduces a novel lightweight compression system that encodes the semantics of the input depth video and can operate in both lossless and L-infinite near-lossless compression modes. A quantization technique that targets the L-infinite norm for sparse distributions and a new L-infinite compression method that sets bounds on the quantization error is proposed. The proposed codec enables the control of the coding error on every pixel in the input video data, which is crucial in medical applications. Experimental results show an average improvement of 45% and 17% in lossless mode compared to standalone JPEG-LS and CALIC codecs, respectively. Furthermore, in near-lossless mode, the proposed codec achieves superior rate-distortion performance and reduced maximum error per frame compared to HEVC. Additionally, the proposed lightweight codec is designed to perform efficiently in real time when deployed on an embedded depth-camera platform.

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depth mapforeground-background segmentationL-infinitelossless and near-lossless compressionMAXADquantization

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PMID40096201
PMCPMC11902697

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