Scalable MDC for 3D Stereoscopic Video using motion vector encoding

Interest in 3D video visualization systems is a ever growing field. Such areas include the provision of 3D content to users thus opening the exploration of 3D video communication and transmission. To address communication and transmission one must consider error resilience. Multiple Description Coding (MDC) can provide a robust video communication over wireless networks. However it can introduce high levels of redundancy. In this paper, we propose a scalable MDC architecture using motion vector (MV) encoding for 3D video. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the frame quality by up to 2dB over a pixel based interpolation scheme with residual coding while significantly reducing the bit rate compared to a pixel and motion interpolation schemes.