  This paper presents a multi-view distributed video coding framework for
independent camera encoding and centralized decoding. Spatio-temporal-view
concealment methods are developed that exploit the interleaved nature of the
employed hybrid KEY/Wyner-Ziv frames for block-wise generation of the side
information (SI). We study a number of view concealment methods and develop a
joint approach that exploits all available correlation for forming the side
information. We apply a diversity technique for fusing multiple such
predictions thereby achieving more reliable results. We additionally introduce
systems enhancements for further improving the rate distortion performance
through selective feedback, inter-view bitplane projection and frame
subtraction. Results show a significant improvement in performance relative to
H.264 intra coding of up to 25% reduction in bitrate or equivalently 2.5 dB
increase in PSNR.
