Multiview HEVC – experimental results

This documents presents an approach of providing multiview compression capability in HEVC in similar way to MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Annex H. The results for experimental implementation of HEVC-based multiview codec and prospective performance of multiview prediction in HEVC-based multiview codecs are described. Codec has been implemented using HEVC reference software (HM 3.0), by application the compression scheme similar to Multiview Video Coding technology (MVC). Coding efficiency of HEVC-based multiview coder was evaluated and compared to efficiency of simulcast HEVC. Performance of the proposed encoder was tested with the sequences provided in Call for Proposals (CfP) on 3D Video Coding (3DVC). The average compression gain of using multiview prediction in video encoder is 22.7% in 2-view case and 30.5% in 3-view case, relative to simulcast scenario.