Quantitative Performance Evaluation Of the Emerging HEVC/H.265 Video Codec

This paper, deals with the currently under-development video encoding standard H.265/HEVC. The main purpose of this paper is to perform a quantitative performance evaluation of the emerging standard in comparison to its predecessor H.264/AVC. The paper focuses on both the encoding and compression efficiency by measuring the PSNR scores and bit rate values of reference and non-reference signals. For the needs of the paper, the HEVC and AVC reference encoders were used. Scope of the paper is to research if the current working version of the new coding method is approaching or achieves its primary objective, which is to double the compression efficiency of the bit stream without significant degradation of the encoded quality.