In one aspect, a non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided that stores software instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method for encoding a multi-view frame, wherein the multi-view frame comprises a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) frames. The method includes computing a depth quality sensitivity measure for a multi-view coding block in the multi-view frame, computing a depth-based perceptual quantization scale for a 2D coding block of the multi-view coding block, wherein the depth-based perceptual quantization scale is based on the depth quality sensitive measure and a base quantization scale for the 2D frame including the 2D coding block, and encoding the 2D coding block using the depth-based perceptual quantization scale.

Specific embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying figures. Like elements in the various figures are denoted by like reference numerals for consistency.