Intelligent Mode Decision Procedure for MVC Inter-view Frame

In this paper, an intelligent low-cost mode decision (MD) procedure is proposed for the inter-view frame of the multi-view video coding (MVC). Multiple parameters, such as macro block (MB) energy, view/temporal domain mode similarities and so on, are utilized to reduce the number of the mode candidates so that the corresponding Rate-to-Distortion Cost (RDCost) computing can be eliminated. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce more than 90% processing time for the inter-view frame compared with the original JMVM codec with only a slight quality loss which can be ignored. It can be widely employed by the multi-view signal communications especially under the mobile and embedded environments.