Hybrid video coding supporting intermediate view synthesis

An apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing data provided by an encoder, the computer-readable medium comprising:

• a data stream stored in the computer-readable medium, and comprising multi-view data including at least a first-view video and a second-view video, wherein frames of the second-view video are spatially subdivided into sub-regions,
• the encoder associates each sub-region with a prediction mode selected from at least an inter-view prediction mode and an intra-view prediction mode, and
• the encoder, for each of the sub-regions associated with the inter-view prediction mode,
• selects a disparity vector from a plurality of disparity vectors determined within a predetermined search area,
• determines a prediction residual based on the selected disparity vector, and
• inserts, into the multi-view, data the disparity vector, the prediction residual, and reliability data associated with the disparity vector,
• wherein data associated with a portion of a frame of the first-view video and the disparity vector are used to synthesize a portion of a frame of a third-view video.