Prediction Structures for Multi-view Video Coding

Removing statistical redundancies is the key to achieve efficient video compression. Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) uses prediction structures for removing spatial and temporal redundancies. The compression is based on multiple reference frames as in H.264 standard. The reference frames are managed by following the hierarchical prediction structure. Intra frame, inter-frame and inter-view prediction schemes are efficiently combined to achieve compression from video sequences simultaneously generated using multiple camera systems. MATLAB simulation of an IPP hierarchical prediction structure is performed to test the efficiency of temporal and spatial prediction algorithms for MVC.