Frame-Compatible Stereo 3D Services Using H.264/AVC and HEVC

Stereoscopic 3D services are attracting considerable attention across various industries than never before and one of the major challenges is to introduce these services seamlessly while maintaining the backward compatibility of the existing 2D receivers. Also the increased amount of data for stereoscopic 3D needs to be efficiently compressed. In this paper an attempt has been made to compare the various options for the realization of frame compatible stereo 3D services along with the corresponding compression efficiency and backward compatibility issues.