End-to-End Light Field Image Compression with Multi-Domain Feature Learning

Recently, end-to-end light field image compression methods have been explored to improve compression efficiency. However, these methods have difficulty in efficiently utilizing multi-domain features and their correlation, resulting in limited improvement in compression performance. To address this problem, a novel multi-domain feature learning-based light field image compression network (MFLFIC-Net) is proposed to improve compression efficiency. Specifically, an EPI-based angle completion module (E-ACM) is developed to obtain a complete angle feature by fully exploring the angle information with a large disparity contained in the epipolar plane image (EPI) domain. Furthermore, in order to effectively reduce redundant information in the light field image, a spatial-angle joint transform module (SAJTM) is proposed to reduce redundancy by modeling the intrinsic correlation between spatial and angle features. Experimental results demonstrate that MFLFIC-Net achieves superior performance on MS-SSIM and PSNR metrics compared to public state-of-the-art methods.