Algorithms for Efficient and Fast 3D-HEVC Depth Map Encoding

Gustavo Sanchez is a Professor at the IFFarroupilha, Brazil. Sanchez received the Electrical Engineer degree from the Sul-Rio-Grandense Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology and B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pelotas. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pelotas and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. His research interests include complexity reduction algorithms, hardware-friendly algorithms and dedicated hardware design for 2D and 3D video coding.Luciano Agostini is a professor at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, where he leads the Video Technology Research Group (ViTech). He is a Brazilian distinguished researcher with a CNPq PQ-1D grant and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He was the Executive Vice President for Research and Graduate Studiesat UFPel. His research interest is primarily in 2D and 3D video coding, algorithmic optimization, arithmetic circuits and digital systems. Dr. Agostini has published more than 250 articles in journals and international events. He is a Senior Member of ACM and a Senior Member IEEE, where he is a member of CAS, CS, and SPS societies. He is also member of SBC and SBMicro Brazilian societies. César Marcon is a Professor at the Polytechnic School of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He is a Brazilian distinguished researcher with a CNPq PQ-2 grant. Prof. Marcon received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Professor Marcon is Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Member of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). He is advisor of M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduate students at Graduate Program in Computer Science of PUCRS. He has more than 100 papers publishedin prestigious journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Marcon coordinate several research projects in areas of telecom, healthcare, and telemedicine. His research interests are in the areas of embedded systems in the telecom domain, MPSoC architectures, partitioning and mapping application tasks, fault-tolerance and real-time operating systems.

• Introduction.- 3D-HEVC Background.- State-of-the-Art Overview.- Novel Encoding Time Reduction for 3D-HEVC Depth Map Intra-frame Prediction.- Novel 3D-HEVC Inter-Frame Prediction Encoding Time Reduction.- Conclusions and Open Research Possibilities.