A novel data embedding method for H.264 stereo video codec with joint prediction scheme.

It is important to reduce data redundancy of stereo video in practical applications. In this paper, first, a data embedding method for stereo video (DEMSV) is investigated by embedding the encoding data into the reference frame to encode stereo video. It can use only one channel to transfer all the video data and the receiver can choose a monocular video decoder or stereo video decoder adaptively. Then, introducing the joint prediction scheme in the coding process of DEMSV, we propose a novel data embedding method for H.264 stereo video codec with joint prediction scheme (DEMSV-JPS) to achieve high coding efficiency. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain high peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and compression ratio (at least 33 dB for the test sequence). Comparing the testing methods using JPS and without using JPS, we prove that JPS can further improve the objective and visual quality. DEMSV-JPS shows such advantages and will be suitable to applications in real-time environments of stereo-video transmission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]