Three Dimensional (3-D) video, by definition, is a collection of signals that can provide depth
perception of a 3-D scene. With the development of 3-D display technologies and interactive …

View synthesis prediction (VSP) is a crucial coding tool for improving compression efficiency
in the next generation 3D video systems. However, VSP is susceptible to catastrophic error …

In this paper, a rate-distortion optimized coding mode switching scheme is proposed to
improve error resilience for multi-view video plus depth (MVD) based 3-D video transmission …

Joint video/depth rate allocation is an important optimization problem in 3D video coding. To
address this problem, this paper proposes a distortion model to evaluate the synthesized …

View synthesis prediction (VSP) is an important tool for enhancing the coding efficiency in
the next-generation three-dimensional (3-D) video systems. However, VSP will lead to …

In three-dimensional (3D) video coding, distortion in texture video and depth maps can all
affect the quality of the synthesized virtual views. Therefore, under the total bitrate constraint …

In this paper, we propose a view synthesis distortion model (VSDM) that establishes the
relationship between depth distortion and view synthesis distortion for the regions with …

A novel joint source and channel coding scheme tailored to 3D video is proposed in this
paper to minimize the end-to-end view synthesis distortion within a given total bit rate for …

In 3D video coding, some dependent-view coding tools may utilize derived disparity vectors
(DV) to locate inter-view correspondences, such as the Backward block-based View …

We propose a rate-distortion-optimized framework that incorporates view synthesis for
improved prediction in multiview video coding. In the proposed scheme, auxiliary …