Exploiting depth information for efficient Multi-View Video Coding

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Micallef, Brian W ^a   Debono, Carl J ^a   Farrugia, Reuben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

3DTV; geometric compensation techniques; multi view video coding; MVV plus depth

Indexed keywords

3DTV; ACCURATE COMPENSATION; CODING EFFICIENCY; DEPTH INFORMATION; DISPARITY COMPENSATION; GEOMETRIC COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-VIEW GEOMETRY; MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODING; MVV-PLUS-DEPTH; REFERENCE FRAME; SKIP MODE; VIDEO QUALITY;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 80155163955     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2011.6011874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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