Based on the idea to exploit the statistical dependencies

from both temporal and inter-view reference pictures for

motion compensated prediction, this paper presents a sys-

tematic evaluation of multi-view video coding with opti-

mized prediction structures. The compression method is

based on the multiple reference picture technique in the

H.264/AVC video coding standard. The advantages of hier-

archical B pictures for temporal prediction are combined

with inter-view prediction for different temporal hierarchy

levels, starting from simulcast coding with no inter-view

prediction up to full level inter-view prediction. When using

inter-view prediction at key picture temporal level average

gains of 1.4 dB PSNR are reported, while additionally using

inter-view prediction at non-key picture temporal levels av-

erage gains of 1.6 dB PSNR are reported. For some cases

gains of more than 3 dB, corresponding to bit rate savings of

up to 50 , are obtained.-Based on the idea to exploit the statistical dependencies

from both temporal and inter-view reference pictures for

motion compensated prediction, this paper presents a sys-

tematic evaluation of multi-view video coding with opti-

mized prediction structures. The compression method is

based on the multiple reference picture technique in the

H.264/AVC video coding standard.　The advantages of hier-

archical B pictures for temporal prediction are combined

with inter-view prediction for different temporal hierarchy

levels, starting from simulcast coding with no inter-view

prediction up to full level inter-view prediction. When using

inter-view prediction at key picture temporal level average

gains of 1.4 dB PSNR are reported, while additionally using

inter-view prediction at non-key picture temporal levels av-

erage gains of 1.6 dB PSNR are reported. For some cases

gains of more than 3 dB, corresponding to bit rate savings of

up to 50 , are obtained.