Definition:Since the bandwidth required to transmit stereoscopic and 3D image streams is large, efficient coding techniques should be employed to reduce the data rate.
Introduction
Stereo vision provides a direct way of inferring the depth information by using two images (stereo pair) destined for the left and right eye respectively. The stereo image pair consists by two frames labeled as left frame and right frame.
A stereoscopic pair of image sequences, recorded with a difference in the view angle, allows the three-dimensional (3D) perception of the scene by the human observer, by exposing to each eye the respective image sequence. This creates an enhanced 3D feeling and increased “tele-presence” in teleconferencing and several other applications (medical, entertainment, etc.) [2].
Since the bandwidth required to transmit both stereoscopic image streams is large, efficient coding techniques should be employed to reduce the data rate. Similar to other coding scenarios, compression for...
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Triantafyllidis, G., Grammalidis, N., Strintzis, M.G. (2006). Coding of Stereoscopic and 3D Images and Video. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_21
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