COP: A New Continuous Packing Layout for 360 VR Videos

  • Qikai Pei
  • , Juan Guo
  • , Haiwen Lu
  • , Guilona Ma
  • , Wensong Li
  • , Xinyu Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a new projection format and packing layout for 360 VR videos using octahedron mapping. A spherical video is projected onto an octahedron, where the upper and lower hemispheres correspond to the upper and lower half of the octahedron, respectively. Four regular triangles in the half of the octahedron, are transformed into isosceles right-Angled triangles and packed into a square by remaining adjacent edges. Two equal squares resulted respectively from the upper and lower half of the octahedron, are placed side by side and adjoined by a common edge. This generates a 2:1 aspect ratio rectangle. We demonstrate that our new projection format and layout have advantages in uniformity of pixel density, internal continuity and rectangle aspect ratio while encoding 360 VR videos.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018 - Proceedings
EditorsFrank Steinicke, Bruce Thomas, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Greg Welch
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages655-656
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781538633656
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Aug 2018
Event25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018 - Reutlingen, Germany
Duration: 18 Mar 201822 Mar 2018

Publication series

Name25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityReutlingen
Period18/03/1822/03/18

Keywords

  • Computing methodologies-Computer graphics-Graphics systems and interfaces-Virtual reality

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