Multiview video in "texture-plus-depth" format enables decoder to synthesize freely chosen intermediate views
for enhanced visual experience. Nevertheless, transmission of multiple texture and depth maps over bandwidthconstrained
and loss-prone networks is challenging, especially for conferencing applications with stringent deadlines.
In this paper, we examine the problem of loss-resilient coding of depth maps by exploiting two observations.
First, different depth macroblocks have significantly different error sensitivities with respect to the reconstructed
images. Second, unlike texture, the relative overhead of using reference pictures with large prediction distance is
low for depth maps. This motivates our approach of assigning a weight to represent the varying error sensitivity
of each macroblock and using such weights to guide selection of reference frames. Results show that (1) errors in
depth maps in sequence with high motion yields significant drop in quality in reconstructed images, and (2) that
the proposed scheme can efficiently maintain the quality of reconstructed images even at relatively high packet
loss rates of 3-5%.
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