Compression of 2-D wide multi-view video sequences using view interpolation

In this work, we propose an efficient coding algorithm for multi-view video sequences, captured with a 2-D camera array. We develop an efficient prediction structure, which can exploit inter-view redundancies as well as temporal redundancies in 2-D multi-view video sequences. Moreover, we propose a view interpolation technique based on the bilateral criterion and the skip mode to improve the coding performance. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides better PSNR performance than the conventional multi-view video coding algorithm.