Quality Enhancement for Hybrid 3DTV with Mixed Resolution Using Conditional Replenishment Algorithm

This paper proposes a conditional replenishment algorithm (CRA) to improve the visual quality (where spatial resolutions of the left and right views are mismatched) of a hybrid stereoscopic 3DTV that is based on the ATSC‐M/H standard. So as to generate an enhanced view, the CRA is to choose the better substitute among a disparity‐compensated view with high quality and a simply interpolated view. The CRA generates a disparity map that includes modes and disparity vectors as additional information. It also employs a quad‐tree structure with variable block size by considering the spatial correlation of disparity vectors. In addition, it takes advantage of the disparity map used in a previous frame to keep the amount of additional information as small as possible. The simulation results show that the proposed CRA can successfully improve the peak signal‐to‐noise ratio of a poor‐quality view and consequently have a positive effect on the subjective quality of the resulting 3D view.