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Provided is an image encoding apparatus including a characteristic quantity generation unit that generates a characteristic quantity showing a correlation between pictures for each candidate of a reference picture, with a first viewpoint picture different in time direction from the first viewpoint picture and a second viewpoint picture different from the first viewpoint picture being set as the candidates of the reference picture, and a reference picture list generation unit that generates a reference picture list by selecting as many reference pictures for the first viewpoint picture as the reference pictures for the second viewpoint picture from the candidates of the reference pictures based on the characteristic quantity.
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