An efficient multiview video compression scheme

Multiview video compression is important to the image-based 3D video applications. In this paper, we proposes a novel neighbor-based multiview video compression scheme. It is essentially a MPEG2-like block-based scheme. In particular, a method to decide the stream encoding order is presented. The resulting stream encoding order can better decorrelate spatial redundancies among multiple video streams than the center approach. Experimental results confirm the superiority of the proposed neighbor approach over the center approach and MPEG2 for multiview video compression.