New Application of MV-and 3D-HEVC for Multi-Intensity Illuminated Infrared Video Coding

Abstract

MV-HEVC and 3D-HEVC are the extensions of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) originally designed for Multi-view and 3D video coding respectively. In this paper we reveal a new application of using these video coding standards, i.e., to compress the Multi-Intensity Illuminated Infrared (MIIR) video, a new type of infrared video developed to overcome the limitation of improper illumination conditions for nighttime surveillance. With the proposed encoding method for the MDR video, the coding structures of MV- and 3D-HEVC can compress such video in a more efficient way, i.e., up to 13.2%117.6% bitrate reductions with MV/3D-HEVC compared with standalone HEVC compression and 64.4%/68.7% bitrate reductions compared with simulcast HEVC coding. Experiment results also reveal that weighted prediction algorithm in HEVC can be improved to deal with large change of brightness in the MIIR video.