Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard

  • Gary J. Sullivan ,
  • Jens-Rainer Ohm ,
  • Woo-Jin Han ,
  • Thomas Wiegand

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | , Vol 22(12): pp. 1649-1668

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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.