Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard

@article{Sullivan2012OverviewOT,
  title={Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard},
  author={Gary J. Sullivan and Jens-Rainer Ohm and Woojin Han and Thomas Wiegand},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
  year={2012},
  volume={22},
  pages={1649-1668}
}
  • G. Sullivan, J. Ohm, T. Wiegand
  • Published 1 December 2012
  • Computer Science
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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… 
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