Frame loss error concealment for multiview video coding

The multiview video coding (MVC) standard is currently under development by the Joint Video Team as an extension of the advanced video coding (H.264/AVC) standard. An MVC encoder compresses more than one viewpoint of a scene captured by different cameras. Redundancies between views can be used for inter-view prediction in encoding as well as error concealment in decoding. In this paper, a new algorithm utilizing motion information of pictures from other views to conceal a lost picture is proposed. The algorithm first derives motion information for a lost picture based on motion fields of pictures in adjacent views. Then, traditional motion compensation is invoked within the view containing the lost picture to derive a concealed frame. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve video quality with a negligible computational complexity overhead compared to simple temporal error concealment algorithms.