HEVC Efficiency Assessment for Contribution Services of HD Interlaced Content

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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: 124, No. 7, pp. 1–13
Abstract: In April 2014 a new family of high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) profiles named “range extensions” was approved in order to cover the needs of high-quality production environments, such as primary distribution, contribution services, and editing/post-production.1 HEVC range extensions support the 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma subsampling formats and pixel depths beyond 10 bits, using the same coding tools as the first version of HEVC. The new “Main 422@10” HEVC profile will become the successor of the successful “High 422” profile of the H.264/advanced video coding (AVC) standard, achieving a high efficiency for emerging formats beyond high definition (HD), such as the 4K and 8K formats.2 HD interlaced content is currently the mainstream for broadcasting production, but HEVC profiles do not include specific tools for interlaced content as H.264/AVC did. This paper addresses the issues involved in HD interlaced contribution services under the HEVC Main 422@10 profile, with the aim to identify its real HEVC efficiency in comparison to the High 422P profile of H.264/AVC. The simulation results will report the bandwidth savings and other quality improvements that broadcasters and network operators can achieve for HD interlacing encoding using the new HEVC profiles.
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18618
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18618
Author(s): Juan Jose Anaya
bio
Juan José Anaya Luengo received a M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain in 1989. He then worked as a hardware designer engineer in the R&D department of Telettra, España. In 1991, Alcatel acquired Telettra, and Anaya later joined the R&D Radio access department as the technical manager of a designing group from 1999 up to 2001. In 2001, he joined Sapec as technical manager, designing a complete suite of professional video encoders system with proprietary technology for contribution links over PDH, SDH, and IP, starting with MPEG-2 and then, with H.264. Participation in several national and European projects related with video compression, UHDTV, 3D, multiview, and transmission (Itea-2, Catrenne, …)
Damian Ruiz
bio
Damian Ruiz Coll received a M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Universidad Polytechnic of Madrid, in 2000. In 2012, he joined the Mobile Communication Group (MCG) of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), Valencia, Spain, as a video coding researcher. In 2012 and 2015, he was a guest researcher at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the U.S. His main research interests include the complexity algorithm reduction for the new video coding standard, high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) using data mining techniques, with more than 20 publications. He is a member of Digital Video Broadcasting, FOBTV, MPEG and “Beyond HD” of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). He has more than 15 years of experience as research and development (R&D) engineer at the Spanish public broadcaster, RTVE, and he was involved in R&D projects related to HDTV video coding. He has participated in a number of ad hoc groups of the EBU organization, such as “HDTV Production” (EBU/HDTP), “HD Contribution Codecs” (EBU/HDCC), and chaired the “Distribution Scalable Video Coding” (EBU/DSVC) group.
Keyword(s): HEVC, Contribution, Archive
Copyright: © 2015 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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