Joint source-channel rate-distortion optimization with motion information sharing for H.264/AVC video-plus-depth coding

Video-plus-depth coding has been suggested as an efficient tool to support three-dimensional television. In this paper, we propose a motion information sharing encoding scheme with an end-to-end rate-distortion model for H.264/AVC coding of video-plus-depth sequences. Experimental results with the proposed encoding scheme show PSNR gains of up to 1 dB for the depth sequence under a packet loss environment.