New prediction structure for stereoscopic video coding based on the h.264/AVC standard

Abstract

The Three-dimensional video has gained significant interest recently. Many of existing 3D video systems are based on stereoscopic technology. The data of the stereoscopic video is twice of the monoscopic video at least, so the data of the stereoscopic video is very huge, efficient compression techniques are essential for realizing such applications. In this paper, stereoscopic video coding is studied, and three prediction structures for stereoscopic video coding are discussed. An improved structure is proposed after the three prediction structures were analyzed and compared. The proposed structure encodes stereoscopic video sequences effectively. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.