Conversion of H.264-encoded 2D video to 3D format

An efficient 2D to 3D video conversion method that utilizes the H.264 motion estimation procedure is proposed. The depth information is determined based on the objects´ motion information within the scene. Performance evaluations show that our approach outperforms the other existing H.264-based depth map estimation technique by up to 2.2 dB PSNR, and provides more realistic depth information about the scene. Subjective comparisons also confirm the superiority of our method.