Wyner–Ziv-Based Multiview Video Coding

Utilizing video correlations among views would definitely improve multiview video compression in terms of coding efficiency, which usually requests an expensive system to collect videos from different cameras and jointly compress them. Thanks to recent developments on distributed video coding, this paper proposes a new multiview video coding scheme based on Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding technique, in which the complicated temporal and interview correlation exploration process is shifted from the encoder side to the decoder side so that broadband raw data traffic and high intensive computation for jointly encoding can be avoided. At the encoder side, a wavelet-based WZ scheme is proposed to compress video of every camera. Furthermore, in order to better utilize correlation in wavelet domain, all coefficients are organized as that done in SPIHT bit plane by bit plane. At the decoder side, a more flexible prediction technique that can jointly utilize temporal and view correlations is proposed to generate side information. Finally, experimental results show the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the conventional intra-frame coding for better random access and is even close to the inter-frame coding for better efficiency. Furthermore, compressed data is much robust when it is transmitted over an error-prone channel.