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Abstract

A highly efficient encoding technique is realized even for a multiview video involved in local mismatches in illumination and color between cameras. A view synthesized picture corresponding to an encoding target frame is synthesized from an already encoded reference view frame taken at a reference view different from an encoding target view simultaneously with the encoding target frame at the encoding target view of a multiview video. For each processing unit region having a predetermined size, a reference region on an already encoded reference frame at the encoding target view corresponding to the view synthesized picture is searched for. A correction parameter for correcting a mismatch between cameras is estimated from the view synthesized picture for the processing unit region and the reference frame for the reference region. The view synthesized picture for the processing unit region is corrected using the estimated correction parameter. A video at the encoding target view is subjected to predictive encoding using the corrected view synthesized picture.

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