Performance comparison of H.265/MPEG-HEVC, VP9, and H.264/MPEG-AVC encoders

2013 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 394-397

  Grois, Dan ^a   Marpe, Detlev ^a   Mulayoff, Amit ^b   Itzhaky, Benaya ^b   Hadar, Ofer ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

AVC; Coding efficiency; H.264; H.265; High efficiency video coding (HEVC); Video coding; VP9; X264

Indexed keywords

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

AVC; CODING EFFICIENCY; H.264; H.265; HIGH-EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING; VP9; X264;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 84897713978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCS.2013.6737766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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