Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard

Author

Sullivan, G.J. ; Ohm, J. -R. ; Woo-Jin Han ; Wiegand, Thomas

Author_Institution

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

12

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1649

Lastpage

1668

Abstract

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is currently being prepared as the newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goal of the HEVC standardization effort is to enable significantly improved compression performance relative to existing standards-in the range of 50% bit-rate reduction for equal perceptual video quality. This paper provides an overview of the technical features and characteristics of the HEVC standard.

Keywords

video coding; HEVC standardization effort; ISO-IEC Moving Picture Experts Group; ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group; bit-rate reduction; compression performance improvement; equal perceptual video quality; high efficiency video coding standard; technical features; ISO standards; MPEG 4 Standard; MPEG standards; Video coding; Video compression; Advanced video coding (AVC); H.264; High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC); Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC); MPEG-4; Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG); standards; video compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8215

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2221191

Filename

6316136