Overview of the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1649-1668

  Sullivan, Gary J ^a   Ohm, Jens Rainer ^b   Han, Woo Jin ^c   Wiegand, Thomas ^d,e  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Gachon University   (South Korea)

^d FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced video coding (AVC); H.264; High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC); Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT VC); Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); MPEG 4; standards; Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG); video compression

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; COLLABORATIVE TEAMS; H.264; HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING (HEVC); MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; MPEG-4; VIDEO CODING EXPERTS GROUP;

DECODING; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; STANDARDS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84872253926     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2221191     Document Type: Article

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