PID-based bit allocation strategy for asymmetric stereoscopic video coding with fuzzy quality controller

Asymmetric stereoscopic video coding can take advantage of binocular suppression in human vision by representing one of the two views in lower quality. This paper proposes a bit allocation strategy for asymmetric stereoscopic video coding. In order to improve the accuracy of bit allocation and rate control in the left view, a proportionalintegral-derivative controller is adopted. Meanwhile, to control the quality fluctuation between consecutive frames of the left view, a quality controller is adopted. Besides, a fuzzy controller is proposed to control the variation in quality between the left and right views by comparing the PSNR disparity of two views with a fixed threshold, which is used to quantize the binocular psycho-visual redundancy and adjust the quantization parameter (QP) of the right view correspondingly. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in H.264/AVC video codec, and the experimental results show its effectiveness in rate control while keeping a good quality for the left view, and fewer bits are allocated for the right view so that the overall bit rate is saved by 7.2% at most without the loss of subjective visual quality for stereoscopic video.

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