@article{Magnor:2000:DCL, author = {M.~Magnor and B.~Girod}, title = {Data Compression for Light Field Rendering}, journal = {IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology}, year = {2000}, month = apr, pages={338--343}, volume = 10, number = 3, url="http://www.lnt.de/~magnor/Publications.html", annote=" Two light-field compression schemes are presented. The codecs are compared with regard to compression efficiency and rendering performance. The first proposed coder is based on video-compression techniques that have been modified to code the four-dimensional light-field data structure efficiently. The second coder relies entirely on disparity-compensated image prediction, establishing a hierarchical structure among the light-field images. Coding performance of both schemes is evaluated using publicly available light fields of synthetic as well as real-world scenes. Compression ratios vary between \mbox{100:1} and \mbox{2000:1}, depending on reconstruction quality and light-field scene characteristics." }