The New High-Efficiency Video Coding Standard

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 122, No. 4, pp. 25–35
Abstract: Recent developments in camera and display technologies are supporting increasingly larger resolutions. At the same time, studies predict that the share of video data in overall consumer Internet traffic will become larger than 75%. These developments require a more efficient coding of digital video than the current video-coding standard H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC is capable of. The new High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard achieves this by introducing new coding tools as well as by improving techniques already known from H.264/MPEG- 4 AVC. Recent performance analyses comparing HEVC with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile show average bitrate reductions around 35 to 40% for a given objective quality while subjective test results indicate that a 50% bitrate reduction for a comparable visual quality can be achieved. Besides techniques for substantially improving coding efficiency, large efforts have been put on facilitating parallel encoding and decoding in HEVC. This article presents in detail all these different aspects of HEVC.
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18287
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18287
Author(s): Benjamin Bross
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Benjamin Bross is a project manager at the Image Processing department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from RWTH University Aachen, Germany, in 2008. During his studies he worked on three-dimensional image registration in medical imaging and on decoder side motion vector derivation in H.264/MPEG-4-AVC. His research interests include motion estimation/prediction, residual coding, and fast encoding techniques. — Since the development of the new High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, H.265/PEG-HEVC, Bross started in 2010, he has been very active in the standardization process as a technical contributor and coordinator of core experiments. In July 2012, he was appointed as co-chair of the editing ad hoc group and became the chief editor of the H.265/MPEG-HEVC video coding standard. At the Heinrich Hertz Institute, he is currently responsible for the development of H.265 / MPEGHEVC conform realtime encoders and decoders.
Heiko Schwarz
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Heiko Schwarz received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and a Dr.-Ing. degree, both from the University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. — In 1999, he joined the Image and Video Coding Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications–Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. Since then, he has contributed successfully to the standardization activities of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (ITU-T SG16/Q.6-VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Pictures Experts Group (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11-MPEG). During the development of the scalable video coding extension of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, he co-chaired several ad hoc groups of the Joint Video Team of ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG investigating particular aspects of the scalable video coding design. He has been appointed as a co-editor of ITU-T Rec. H.264 and ISO/IEC 14496-10 and as a software coordinator for the SVC reference software.
Detlev Marpe
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Detlev Marpe received a Dipl.-Math. degree (with highest honors) from the Berlin University of Technology (TUB), Germany, and a Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science from University of Rostock, Germany. Since 2010, he has been head of the Image & Video Coding Group in the Image Processing Department of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin. For more than a decade, he has been an active contributor to the standardization activities of ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC JPEG, and ISO/IEC MPEG for still image and video coding. — For his substantial contributions to the field of video coding, Marpe was nominated for the 2012 German Future Prize and received the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award 2011. As a key contributor and co-editor of the H.264|MPEG-4 AVC standard, he was co-recipient of two Emmy Engineering Awards in 2008 and 2009. Marpe is author or co-author of more than 200 publications in the area of video coding and signal processing, and he holds numerous internationally issued patents and patent applications in this field. He is an IEEE senior member and member of the German Information Technology Society.
Copyright: © 2013 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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