Fast joint bit-allocation between texture and depth maps for 3D video coding

This paper presents a fast joint texture/depth bit-allocation method for 3DV coding. As compared to the previous bit-allocation schemes in which the pre-encoding process is required to determine model parameters, the proposed scheme proposed the real-time joint bit-allocation scheme without any pre-encoding process. As a result, any scene change detection for adaptive model parameter changes is also unnecessary in the proposed scheme. The simulation results show the proposed scheme is comparable to the time-consuming full-search or model-based approaches, while the additional complexity for bit-allocation is almost negligible.