Disparity Estimation of 3-D Mesh for Stereo Video Coding

Abstract

This paper proposed a disparity estimation method based on the three-dimensional (3-D) mesh model. The disparity estimation is a key step in stereo video coding. By employing intermediate view synthesis, the proposed technique simulate the nodals in the 3-D sureface of stereo image efficiently. Simulated results show that the proposed technique yields a visually more accurate prediciton than the block-matching algorithm.