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Since early 2006, Joint Video Team has been devoting on the development of Multiview Video Coding (MVC) standard as an extension of H.264/AVC. This MVC standard has been finalized in 2008. During the standardization of MVC, there was also a project namely Joint Multiview Video Model (JMVM), which focused on the advanced coding tools that are potentially useful. Those coding tools adopted into JMVM, including illumination compensation and motion skip, have not been added into MVC specification. In this paper, coding techniques in MVC as well as the tools in JMVM are described and discussed, focusing on the coding efficiency.

Downsampling applied to texture views prior to encoding can increase the subjective quality of decoded video. In our study, we show that spatial resolution selection based on traditional pixel-based distortion metrics, such as Mean Square Error (MSE) is weakly correlated with the resolution selection based on subjective quality of coded video. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel frequency-based distortion metric which is shown to resemble subjective quality of coded video more accurately compared to conventionally used MSE-based metric.