Fully scalable multiview wavelet video coding

This paper presents a 2-D pipeline-based locally adaptive inter-view-temporal lifting scheme for scalable multi-view video coding. Instead of global temporal and inter-view correlation analysis based on the whole picture, the proposed method adopts locally adaptive inter-view-temporal correlation analysis based on the macroblocks. In addition, in order to reduce the memory requirement and computational complexity and remove both of temporal and view boundary effects, a new 2-D pipeline-based lifting scheme is proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme always outperforms the other tested schemes in coding efficiency, while providing several advantages, such as view scalability, pipeline-based processing, and moderate complexity.