Two Novel Methods for Full Frame Loss Concealment in Stereo Video

Streaming media applications often suffer from packet losses in wired or wireless IP links. In order to get reasonable degree of quality in case of packet losses, it is necessary to have error concealment tools at the decoder. Even though several research has been done on monoscopic video, very few studies are found in the literature for stereoscopic error concealment. In this paper we propose novel full frame loss concealment algorithms for stereoscopic sequences. The proposed methods use redundancy and disparity between the two views and motion information between the previously decoded frames to estimate the lost frame. The results show that, the proposed algorithms outperform the monoscopic methods when they are applied to the same view as they are simulcast coded