Coding techniques in Multiview Video Coding and Joint Multiview Video Model

Ying Chen, Miska M. Hannuksela, Ling Zhu, Antti Hallapuro, Moncef Gabbouj, Houqiang Li

Abstract: Since early 2006, Joint Video Team has been devoting on the development of Multiview Video Coding (MVC) standard as an extension of H.264/AVC. This MVC standard has been finalized in 2008. During the standardization of MVC, there was also a project namely Joint Multiview Video Model (JMVM), which focused on the advanced coding tools that are potentially useful. Those coding tools adopted into JMVM, including illumination compensation and motion skip, have not been added into MVC specification. In this paper, coding techniques in MVC as well as the tools in JMVM are described and discussed, focusing on the coding efficiency.