An H.264-based scheme for 2D to 3D video conversion

An efficient 2D to 3D video conversion method which utilizes the H.264 motion estimation process is proposed. The relationship between motion and depth was approximated via our non-linear scheme, that is based on the characteristics of 3D visual perception. Performance evaluations show that our approach outperforms other existing motion-based depth map estimation technique by 1.84 dB PSNR via providing more realistic depth information for the scene. Subjective comparisons also confirm the efficiency of our method.