JPEG Pleno: a standard framework for representing and signaling plenoptic modalities

JPEG Pleno: a standard framework for representing and signaling plenoptic modalities ■

Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens, Zahir Y. Alpaslan, Zahir Y. Alpaslan, Zahir Y. Alpaslan, Touradj Ebrahimi, Touradj Ebrahimi, Touradj Ebrahimi, Kwan-Jung Oh, Kwan-Jung Oh, Kwan-Jung Oh, Fernando Pereira, Fernando Pereira, Fernando Pereira, Antonio Pinheiro, Antonio Pinheiro, Antonio Pinheiro, Ioan Tabus, Ioan Tabus, Ioan Tabus, Zhibo Chen, Zhibo Chen, Zhibo Chen

Abstract ■

In recent years, we have observed the advent of plenoptic modalities such as light fields, point clouds and holography in many devices and applications. Besides plenty of technical challenges brought by these new modalities, a particular challenge is arising at the horizon, namely providing interoperability between these devices and applications, and – in addition – at a cross-modality level. Based on these observations the JPEG committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 and ITU-T SG16) has initiated a new standardization initiative – JPEG Pleno – that is intended to define an efficient framework addressing the above interoperability issues. In this paper, an overview is provided about its current status and future plans.