APPARATUS FOR CODING A BIT STREAM REPRESENTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO

摘要

The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for coding a bit stream representing a three- dimensional video comprising a sequence of views, wherein a depth map is associated to each view, the depth map comprising depth information of the view with respectto a position to the camera capturing the view, the apparatus comprising: a partitioner (101 ) for partitioning the depth map into coding units; a determiner (103) for determining a type of model function for each coding unit based on the depth information of the coding unit; a reducer (105) for reducing the coding unit to a single residual value for each segment generated by model function; and a signaler (107) for signaling the model function used and the residual value into the bitstream.