Inter-view coding for stereoscopic Digital Cinema

An inter-view coding scheme is proposed for stereoscopic video applications such as 3D Digital Cinema. It tackles inter-view redundancy with efficient inter-view disparity-compensated filtering. In the temporal dimension, intra-coding with JPEG2000 is used to meet Digital Cinema specific requirements in terms of latency and random access. Inter-view disparity, as well as uncovered areas, are efficiently addressed within the inter-view Haar transform, and the resulting overhead information only amounts to a few percents of the bitstream. The proposed stereoscopic coding scheme delivers both left and right views with a high level of quality and yields to significant improvement in terms of bitrate saving and image quality in comparison with simulcast.