Comparative assessment of H.265/MPEG-HEVC, VP9, and H.264/MPEG-AVC encoders for low-delay video applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9217, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Grois, Dan ^a   Marpe, Detlev ^a   Nguyen, Tung ^a   Hadar, Ofer ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

AVC; Coding efficiency; Computational complexity; H.264; H.265; High efficiency video coding (HEVC); Low delay video coding; VP9; X264

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE PROCESSING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

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

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 84922717644     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2073323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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