Error concealment for stereoscopic video using illumination compensation

Illumination changes of different views of the 3D video can cause performance degradation in error concealment. In this paper we propose a new method of the error concealment for stereoscopic video to overcome this problem. We explore four implementations of an inter-view macro block (MB) matching algorithm which successfully compensates for illumination changes between stereo pairs. Experimental results show that our proposed method can obtain average gain of approximately 1.9dB compared to the Joint Model of H.264/AVC (JM) method for various test sequences and different MB loss ratio¹.