Apparatus and method for fast multiview video coding

摘要

Generally, an apparatus and a method for encoding multiview video downscale two views of the multiview video, determine a shift between the downscaled views, and encode one the two views using the shift.

主权项

1. A method for multiview video coding, the method comprising:
downscaling two views of a multiview video; determining a shift between the two downscaled views; encoding one of the two views using the shift; upscaling the shift; identifying co-located areas of the two views using the upscaled shift; comparing pixels of the co-located areas in a first comparison, shifting one of the co-located areas by a predetermined shift amount; comparing pixels of the other of the co-located areas to pixels of the shifted co-located area in a second comparison; and refining the upscaled shift with the predetermined shift amount if the second comparison results in less residue than the first comparison.