Scalable coding of multi-view video

Abstract

A standard for scalable video coding (SVC) is currently being worked on by the ISO MPEG Group. Work on standardization of multiple-view video coding (MVC) has also recently started under the ISO MPEG. Although there are many approaches already published on SVC and MVC, there is no current work reported on scalable multi-view video coding (SMVC). This paper presents architectures and implementations for scalable stereo and multi-view video coding, and show how combination of scalability modes, such as temporal, spatial, and SNR scalability, can be used to most efficiently encode multiple-view video at a given bandwidth.