Asymmetric Coding of Stereoscopic Video for Transmission Over T-DMB

Abstract

In this paper, we present an efficient approach for the compression of stereoscopic video sequences. By extending an H.264/AVC-based multi-view video coding (MVC) codec as described in a previous paper to mixed-resolution imagery, i.e., to stereoscopic videos where the right-eye view had been spatially down-sampled in order to reduce the total amount of data to be encoded, we are able to combine the benefits of both disparity-compensated prediction (DCP) and asymmetric coding. By doing so, we expect to achieve very high compression gains without reducing the overall visual quality of the resulting three-dimensional (3D) percept.