Informal subjective quality comparison of video compression performance of the HEVC and H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC standards for low-delay applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8499, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Horowitz, Michael ^a   Kossentini, Faouzi ^a   Mahdi, Nader ^a   Xu, Shilin ^a   Guermazi, Hsan ^a   Tmar, Hassene ^a   Li, Bin ^b   Sullivan, Gary J ^c   Xu, Jizheng ^c  

^a EBrisk Video Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

AVC; H.264; H.264 MPEG 4 AVC; H.265; HEVC; JCT VC; Subjective quality

Indexed keywords

AVC; H.264; H.265; HEVC; JCT-VC; MPEG-4 AVC; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 84872291637     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.953235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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