Study of advanced compression tools for stereoscopic video by objective metrics

Nowadays, there are many kinds of technologies to provide multimedia TV content in different formats and picture quality. Three-dimensional (3D) video is one of the next generation TV services with specific features from the video image quality point of view. Naturally, efficient compression tools enabling significant bit rate reduction to ease 3D video distribution are an integral part of any practical 3D video system implementation. In this paper, we present a study of recent and upcoming compression tools for stereoscopic videos. We consider H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), H.264 Annex H - Multiview Video Coding (MVC), H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and H.265 Annex G - Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC) video coding formats to process stereoscopic videos with different properties. To compare the performance of considered compression tools, we provide an analysis of the encoded/decoded stereoscopic video quality using objective metrics.