Toward 3DoF+ 360 video streaming system for immersive media

Abstract

Immersive video streaming has become very popular. To increase the quality of experience (QoE) with immersive media, user movement adaptive video streaming, three degrees of freedom plus (3DoF+), has emerged and is expected to meet this growing demand. Satisfying the limit of the bandwidth, providing high-quality immersive experience is challenging because 3DoF+ system requires high resolution, multi-view video transmission. This paper proposes a stride based 3DoF+ 360 video streaming system and introduces two main ideas: (i) a multi-view video redundancy removal method using view synthesis, (ii) a multi-view video residual packing method. The proposed multi-view video compression method removes redundancy between videos and packs them into one video, and it exhibits a BD-rate saving of 36.0% in maximum compared to the results of the high-efficiency video coding reference model. In addition, the proposed system requires fewer number of decoders for the clients, and it decreases the burden for immersive video streaming.