ISO/IEC 21794-4:2022

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 21794-4
First edition
2022-05
Information technology — Plenoptic
image coding system (JPEG Pleno) —
Part 4:
Reference software
Reference number
© ISO/IEC 2022
© ISO/IEC 2022
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on
the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below
or ISO’s member body in the country of the requester.
ISO copyright office
CP 401 • Ch. de Blandonnet 8
CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva
Phone: +41 22 749 01 11
Email: copyright@iso.org
Website: www.iso.org
Published in Switzerland
ii
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Abbreviated terms . 1
5 Conventions . 2
6 Reference software . 2
7 Examples of use .2
8 Warranty disclaimer . 3
9 General . 3
10 Building the reference software .3
Annex A (informative) Building the reference software for ISO/IEC 21794-1 and ISO/IEC
21794-2 . . 5
Annex B (informative) Baseline block-based profile usage GUI . 6
Annex C (informative) Baseline view-based profile usage guide.11
iii
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are
members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical
committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical
activity. ISO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international
organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the
work.
The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance
are described in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. In particular, the different approval criteria
needed for the different types of document should be noted. This document was drafted in
accordance with the editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 (see www.iso.org/directives or
www.iec.ch/members_experts/refdocs).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject
of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights. Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the
Introduction and/or on the ISO list of patent declarations received (see www.iso.org/patents) or the IEC
list of patent declarations received (see https://patents.iec.ch).
Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not
constitute an endorsement.
For an explanation of the voluntary nature of standards, the meaning of ISO specific terms and
expressions related to conformity assessment, as well as information about ISO's adherence to
the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) see
www.iso.org/iso/foreword.html. In the IEC, see www.iec.ch/understanding-standards.
This document was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 29, Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information.
A list of all parts in the ISO/IEC 21794 series can be found on the and IEC websites.
Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards
body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html and
www.iec.ch/national-committees.
iv
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

Introduction
This document is part of a series of standards for a system known as JPEG Pleno. The ISO/IEC 21794
series aims to provide a standard framework for representing new imaging modalities. It facilitates
the capture, representation, exchange and visualization of plenoptic imaging modalities. A plenoptic
image modality can be a light field, point cloud or hologram, which are sampled representations of
the plenoptic function in the form of, respectively, a vector function that represents the radiance of a
discretized set of light rays, a collection of points with position and attribute information, or a complex
wavefront. The plenoptic function describes the radiance in time and in space obtained by positioning a
pinhole camera at every viewpoint in 3D spatial coordinates, every viewing angle and every wavelength,
resulting in a 7D function.
JPEG Pleno is designed primarily to facilitate the capture, representation, exchange and visualization
of point cloud, light field, and holographic imaging approaches. It specifies tools for coding these
approaches while providing advanced functionality at the system level such as support for data and
metadata manipulation, editing, random access and interaction, protection of privacy and ownership
rights as well as other security mechanisms.
This document provides reference software implementations of ISO/IEC 21794-1 and ISO/IEC 21794-2
that demonstrate the features and capabilities of JPEG Pleno for coding light field data. Its purpose
is to act as a guideline for implementations and as a reference for conformance testing. As such, the
implementations are conforming to ISO/IEC 21794-1, i.e. it implements the structure of a JPL file
which includes the concepts of boxes. In addition, the reference software implementations also cover
ISO/IEC 21794-2, i.e. light-field coding.
This document includes the source code for reference implementations of ISO/IEC 21794-1 and
ISO/IEC 21794-2 as electronic attachments. They have been successfully compiled and tested on
®1)
Linux operating system at the time of writing.
Instructions for unpacking and building the software are found in Annexes A. Instructions for its use
are listed in Annexes B and C.
1) Linux® is the trademark of a product supplied by Linus Torvalds. This information is given for the convenience
of users of this document and does not constitute an endorsement by ISO/IEC of the product named. Equivalent
products may be used if they can be shown to lead to the same results.
v
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 21794-4:2022(E)
Information technology — Plenoptic image coding system
(JPEG Pleno) —
Part 4:
Reference software
1 Scope
This document provides reference implementations of ISO/IEC 21794-1 and ISO/IEC 21794-2, also
known as JPEG Pleno.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 21794-1, Information technology — Plenoptic image coding system (JPEG Pleno) — Part 1:
Framework
ISO/IEC 21794-2, Information technology — Plenoptic image coding system (JPEG Pleno) — Part 2: Light
field coding
ISO/IEC 21794-3, Information technology — Plenoptic image coding system (JPEG Pleno) — Part 3:
Conformance testing
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 21794-1, in
ISO/IEC 21794-2, in ISO/IEC 21794-3, and the following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https:// www .electropedia .org/
3.1
codestream
sequence of bytes that conforms to or is to be checked for conformance with the codestream syntax
specified in ISO/IEC 21794-1 and/or ISO/IEC 21794-2
3.2
JSON
data interchange format that represents data objects using attribute–value pairs and array data types
specified in ISO/IEC 21778
4 Abbreviated terms
JPLM JPEG Pleno Model
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

PPM Portable pixmap format
PSNR Peak signal-to-noise ratio
RDO Rate-distortion optimization
RGB Red, Green, Blue
5 Conventions
Monospaced text indicates program input or output as necessary to either run the software, or as
generated by the software on the console.
6 Reference software
The following reference software is provided:
— Reference decoder software capable of decoding codestreams that conform to ISO/IEC 21794-1
and/or ISO/IEC 21794-2.
— Sample encoder software capable of producing codestreams that conform to ISO/IEC 21794-1 and/
or ISO/IEC 21794-2.
The use of the reference software is not required for making an implementation of an encoder or
decoder in conformance to any of the parts of the ISO/IEC 21794 series. Requirements established in
ISO/IEC 21794-1 and ISO/IEC 21794-2 take precedence over the behaviour of the reference software.
7 Examples of use
Some examples of use for the reference decoder software implementations are as follows:
— As an illustration of how to perform the decoding processes.
— As the starting basis for the implementation of a decoder that conforms to one or multiple parts of
the ISO/IEC 21794 series.
— For (non-exhaustive) testing of the conformance of a codestream (or file) as specified in
ISO/IEC 21794-1 or ISO/IEC 21794-2.
NOTE The lack of detection of any conformance violation by any reference software implementation is not
to be considered as definitive proof that the codestream under test conforms to all constraints required for the
codestream to conform to one of the ISO/IEC 21794 series.
Some examples of use for a reference encoder software are as follows:
— As an illustration of how to implement an encoding process that produces codestreams that are,
depending on the settings of the software, conforming to one or multiple members of the software
of ISO/IEC 21794 series.
— As a starting point for an implementation of an encoder that conforms to one or multiple members
of the ISO/IEC 21794 series.
— As a means of generating codestreams conforming to one or multiple parts of the ISO/IEC 21794
series for testing purposes.
— As a means of demonstrating and evaluating examples of the quality that can be achieved by an
encoding process that conforms to multiple parts of the ISO/IEC 21794 series.
No guarantee of the quality that will be achieved by an encoder is provided by its conformance to one
or multiple parts of the ISO/IEC 21794 series as the conformance is defined only in terms of specific
© ISO/IEC 2022 – All rights reserved

constraints imposed on the syntax of the generated codestream. In particular, while sample encoder
software implementations may suffice to provide some illustrative examples of which quality can be
achieved within the ISO/IEC 21794 series, they provide neither an assurance of minimum guaranteed
image encoding quality nor maximum achievable image encoding quality.
Similarly, the computation resource characteristics in terms of program or data memory usage,
execution speed, etc. of sample software encoder or decoder implementations should not be construed
as a representative of the typical, minimal or maximal computational resource characteristics to be
exhibited by implementations of some parts of the ISO/IEC 21794 series.
8 Warranty disclaimer
Regardless of any and all statements made herein or elsewhere regarding the
...