1. An apparatus, comprising: an input to receive a bitstream comprising coded pictures and high-level syntax comprising parameters to enable color compensation; a video decoder configured to decode a picture in the bitstream by selectively enabling color compensation of at least one color component in a prediction of the picture based upon a correlation factor relating to color data between the picture and another picture in the bitstream, the picture and the other picture having different view points and both corresponding to multi-view content for a same or similar scene, wherein the correlation factor is determined based on one or more parameters of the high-level syntax.