Stereoscopic Video Coding Based on H.264 Standard

H.264 is an advanced video compression standard absorbing the advantages of the previous standard. In this paper, block-based stereoscopic video coding is presented. The main view of the sequences is encoded as a H.264 bitstream and the auxiliary views are encoded by joint motion and disparity compensation, so that both temporal and spatial redundancy are reduced and high compression is achieved. Investigating the effectiveness of the joint motion and disparity vectors estimation as well as the employing of the H.264 encoder optimizes the whole framework.