Object Based Stereoscopic Video Coding

Definition:Object-based cooding techniques have the ability to describe a scene in a structural way and to convey depth information that can be computed directly from the images.

Object based coding has long attracted considerable attention as a promising alternative to block-based encoding, achieving excellent performance and producing fewer annoying effects. Furthermore, important image areas such as facial details in face-to-face communications can be reconstructed with a higher image quality than with block-oriented hybrid coding. In addition, the ability of object-based coding techniques to describe a scene in a structural way, in contrast to traditional waveform-based coding techniques, opens new areas of applications. Video production, realistic computer graphics, multimedia interfaces and medical visualization are some of the applications that may benefit by exploiting the potential of object based schemes. Object-based approaches applied in coding of stereo image sequences...