Patent ID: 7728878

Claim:
A method for processing a plurality of multiview videos of a scene, in which each video is acquired by a corresponding camera arranged at a particular pose, and in which a view of each camera overlaps with the view of at least one other camera, comprising the steps of: obtaining side information for synthesizing a particular view of the multiview video, wherein the side information includes depth values; synthesizing, using the side information, a synthesized multiview video from an input video, wherein the input video includes at least one of the multiview videos, and the synthesized multiview video corresponds to single pose different than the input video; maintaining a reference picture list for a picture associated with a particular time instant and a particular one of the plurality of multiview videos, wherein the reference picture list indexes temporal reference pictures and spatial reference pictures of the plurality of acquired multiview videos and the synthesized reference pictures of the synthesized multiview video, and wherein where the temporal reference pictures are associated with a time instant that is different than the particular time instant and the spatial reference pictures are associated with the same particular time instant, and wherein each reference picture is assigned a unique picture order count; and predicting each current frame of the plurality of multiview videos according to reference pictures indexed by the associated reference picture list.