An extended AMVP scheme in HEVC with MPEG-2 for a hybrid stereoscopic encoder

A hybrid stereoscopic broadcasting service is considered a possible solution to the lack of frequency bandwidth for transmission of additional view sequences and to the backward compatibility for the existing MPEG-2 based DTV services. In this paper, a hybrid stereoscopic encoder based on MPEG-2 and HEVC is first considered where left-view sequences are encoded by MPEG-2 to provide the backward compatibility while right-view sequences are encoded by HEVC for delivery over Internet. In the hybrid stereoscopic encoder, we propose an inter-view coding scheme between the left- and right-view sequences to enhance the coding performance of HEVC for right-view sequences. Therefore, in this paper, an extension to HEVC is made with an inter-view coding scheme by having disparity based motion-compensated prediction. For this, MPEG-2 motion vectors from left-view sequences and global disparity vectors between two-view sequences are utilized. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid stereoscopic encoder achieves average 37.75% coding gain in BDBR compared with the performance of HEVC simulcast encoding for right-view sequences.