Performance analysis of JPEG Pleno light field coding

Light fields can nowadays be acquired by several methods and devices in the form of light field images, which are at the core of new forms of media technologies. Many research challenges are still open in light field imaging, such as data representation formats, data compression tools, communication protocols, subjective and objective quality of experience measurement metrics and methods. This paper presents a brief overview of the current architecture of the JPEG Pleno light field coding standard under development within the JPEG committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1). Thereafter, a comparative analysis between the performance of the JPEG Pleno Light Field codec under various modes and configurations and the performance of the considered anchor codecs is reported and discussed.