Stereoscopic video coding

It is well known that stereoscopic images and video can be used to simulate the natural process of stereopsis within the Human Visual System (HVS), by providing the two stereo images/video-streams separately to the two eyes. However as compared to presenting traditional two-dimensional images/video to the HVS, providing stereoscopic information requires double the resources, in the form of transmission bandwidth and/or storage space. Thus to handle this excess data effectively, data compression techniques are required, which is the main focus of the research presented in this thesis. The thesis proposes two novel stereoscopic video CODECs, based on the latest video coding standard, H.264. [Continues.]