An Overview of Panoramic Video Projection Schemes in the IEEE 1857.9 Standard for Immersive Visual Content Coding

Panoramic video contains 360-degree video content and it is convenient to draw the content that the user wants to watch on the head-Mount display (HMD) of the virtual reality display device. However, few encoders code panoramic video directly. Panoramic video content needs to be projected to a compression-friendly rectangular plane first. Then the existing video coding standards such as AVC, HEVC, VVC, AVS are used to code the panoramic video content. In order to improve the panoramic video coding efficiency, IEEE 1857.9 immersive video content coding working group was established to develop efficient immersive video projection and coding methods. This paper presents an overview of the panoramic video projection schemes in Immersive Visual Content Coding Standard IEEE 1857.9.