• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.599-607
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• 2021

Inactive region means a region filled with invalid pixel values to represent a specific image. Generally, inactive regions are occurred when the non-rectangular formatted images are converted to the rectangular shaped image, especially when 3D images are represented in 2D format. Because these inactive regions highly degrade the compression efficiency, filtering approaches are often applied to the boundaries between active and inactive regions. However, the image characteristics are not carefully considered during filtering. In the proposed method, inactive regions are padded through reinforcement learning that can consider the compression process and the image characteristics. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs an average of 3.4% better than the conventional padding method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.339-342
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a new method for inactive region padding using reinforcement learning. Inactive region is an area that has no information, such as 360 or 3DOF+ vidoes. However, these inactive regions degrade the compression performance in general. To improve the compression performance, simple filtering is applied between active and inactive regions. But it does not fully consider the characteristics of the images. In the proposed method, inactive regions are padded through reinforcement learning that can consider the characteristics of images and the compression process. Experimental results show that the performance is better than the conventional padding method.