An overview of new video coding tools under consideration for VP10: the successor to VP9

@inproceedings{Mukherjee2015AnOO,
  title={An overview of new video coding tools under consideration for VP10: the successor to VP9},
  author={Debargha Mukherjee and Hui Su and Jim Bankoski and Alex Converse and Jingning Han and Zoe Liu and Yaowu Xu},
  booktitle={SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications},
  year={2015}
}
Google started an opensource project, entitled the WebM Project, in 2010 to develop royaltyfree video codecs for the web. The present generation codec developed in the WebM project called VP9 was finalized in mid2013 and is currently being served extensively by YouTube, resulting in billions of views per day. Even though adoption of VP9 outside Google is still in its infancy, the WebM project has already embarked on an ambitious project to develop a next edition codec VP10 that achieves at… 
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