3D: How Video Compression Technology can Contribute

Transmission of 3D TV content has become a reality in 2010 with DTH services operators committing to commercial deployments. To avoid video encoders and set-top boxes modifications, high definition content is constructed by packing two views onto a single video stream. — For contribution, removing information from the original views could introduce dramatic degradation to the edited and distributed 3D video. This can be avoided by transmitting independently the two views (simulcast) with standard contribution encoders and decoders. — This paper will present the quality tradeoffs of the most popular 3D packing schemes from a video compression perspective with particular attention paid to the specific AVC/H.264 artifacts that they might cause. — We will also present deployed innovative AVC/H.264 4:2:2 10-bit compression solutions that overcome quality degradation in the 3D contribution space with special attention paid to simulcast synchronization issues.

Published

2010-07

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

3D, H.264, AVC, contribution, sub-sampling

DOI

10.5594/M001416

ISBN

978-1-61482-950-8