ICtCp Versus Y'CbCr: Evaluation of ICtCp Color Space and an Adaptive Reshaper for HDR and WCG

New emerging technologies in the field of multimedia, such as high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG), challenge the performance of existing image and video data processing algorithms, especially in terms of visual data compression and its faithful representation. HDR and WCG offer the technological capabilities to capture and represent a scene with an extended amount of details in both luminance and chrominance, respectively. This article presents and evaluates possible solutions to cope with such an extensive amount of data while delivering a faithful representation of visual information. More particularly, two approaches proposing novel color space, a constant intensity color difference signal representation called ICtCp and a novel compression optimization algorithm called the reshaper, are described and subjectively evaluated. The results of the conducted experiments show competitive performance of the two proposed approaches, ICtCp and reshaper, allowing a 10% bit rate reduction while preserving the perceived quality.