The multiview extension of HEVC (MV-HEVC) with an ever increasing number of coding parameters allows much better coding performance compared to the previous multiview video coding standards. Usually, controlling the various coding parameters in a video coding standard to obey the rate constraints in various applications is a major challenge. Rate Control Algorithms (RCA) is used in video coding standards to control the coding parameters to satisfy different rate constraints. Although RCA is not part of a video coding standard but the specific features or aspects of the video coding standard can improve its efficiency considerably. In this paper, we propose a method to investigate the effect of a new feature of MV-HEVC, namely Advanced Motion Vector Prediction (AMVP), to improve the efficiency of the corresponding rate control algorithm. Rate control algorithms usually utilize a rate-distortion (RD) model as a basic tool to describe the relationship between the rate and the quality of the encoded video. We will show that considering the aforementioned feature of MV-HEVC video coding standard as a view-level RD model parameter can improve the effectiveness of the RD model. Evaluation results indicate that using this new feature of MV-HEVC in view-level RD model, we can predict the rate of each view with relatively high precision and a low estimation error of 11% on average.
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