Objects at different depths in the scene of a stereoscopic video sequence will have different displacements, i.e., disparities, in left and right frames of the stereoscopic video sequence, thus creating a sense of depth when the stereoscopic image is viewed on a stereoscopic display. The term disparity refers to the shift that occurs at each point in a scene between the left and right images. This shift may be mostly horizontal when the imaging sensors used to capture the left and right images are offset horizontally. As illustrated in FIG. 1, at the point of convergence D1, corresponding objects in the left and right images are said to have zero horizontal disparity and, when viewed on a stereoscopic display, will appear to be on the display plane. Objects in front of the convergence point, e.g., at point D3, will have negative disparity, i.e., an object in the left image is horizontally shifted to the right of the corresponding object in the right image and will appear in front of the display plane (closer to the viewer). Objects behind the convergence point, e.g., at point D2, will have positive disparity, i.e., an object in the left image is horizontally shifted to the left of the corresponding object in the right image and will appear to be behind the display plane (further from the viewer).