文摘
Many industries are anticipating the arrival of auto-stereoscopic video products and services based on multi-view images. Since multi-view images necessitate a large bandwidth, an efficient coding algorithm is desired. An approach that synthesizes multi-view images from a few views and depth maps is expected to be a promising method for accomplishing this. In this paper, an efficient and easyto-apply multi-view image coding algorithm based on a depth map is proposed. The experimental results show its fast encoding and decoding speed together with subjectively good quality of synthesized view images.