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Multi-View Video Coding Based on Vector Estimation and Weighted Disparity Interpolation

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Aiming at fully exploiting the temporal and spatial redundancy and answering the “Call for Proposals” for multi-view video coding (MVC) issued by MPEG, a MVC scheme based on vector field estimation and weighted disparity interpolation is presented. By extending the loop constraint to multi-view images for a parallel camera model and proposing the novel “vector field estimation” scheme, the temporal and spatial redundancy is significantly reduced. Also, weighted disparity interpolation is performed to predict adjacent disparity vectors. Experimental results over multi-view image sets imply that the coding efficiency is improved about 0.2–0.5 dB compared with previous coding approaches such as H.264/AVC simulcast and JMVM.

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  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Suxing Liu, Ping An, Zhaoyang Zhang, Qian Zhang & Tao Yan

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and System Application, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Suxing Liu, Ping An, Zhaoyang Zhang, Qian Zhang & Tao Yan

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. 60832003 and 60672052), Shuguang Projects of Shanghai (06SG43) and the key project of Shanghai Education Committee (09ZZ90).

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Liu, S., An, P., Zhang, Z. et al. Multi-View Video Coding Based on Vector Estimation and Weighted Disparity Interpolation. Circuits Syst Signal Process 28, 913–923 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-009-9129-0

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