Graph-based transforms have been shown to be powerful tools in terms of image energy compaction. However, when the support increases to best capture signal dependencies, the computation of the basis functions becomes rapidly untractable. This problem is in particular compelling for high dimensional imaging data such as light fields. The use of local transforms with limited supports is a way to cope with this computational difficulty. Unfortunately, the locality of the support may not allow us to fully exploit long term signal dependencies present in both the spatial and angular dimensions in the case of light fields. This paper describes sampling and prediction schemes with local graph-based transforms enabling to efficiently compact the signal energy and exploit dependencies beyond the local graph support. The proposed approach is investigated and is shown to be very efficient in the context of spatio-angular transforms for quasi-lossless compression of light fields.
In this paper we propose a novel vertex based sampling method for k-bandlimited signals lying on arbitrary graphs, that has a reasonable computational complexity and results in low reconstruction error. Our goal is to find the smallest set of vertices that can guarantee a perfect reconstruction of any k-bandlimited signal on any connected graph. We propose to iteratively search for the vertices that yield the minimum reconstruction error, by minimizing the maximum eigenvalue of the error covariance matrix using a linear solver. We compare the performance of our method with state-of-the-art sampling strategies and random sampling on graphs. Experimental results show that our method successfully computes the smallest sample sets on arbitrary graphs without any parameter tuning. It provides a small reconstruction error, and is robust to noise.