The newest H.265/HEVC video coding standard adopts the quadtree-structured coding unit (CU) to match various texture characteristics of image. Therefore, H.265/HEVC can achieve significantly better coding efficiency than all existing video coding standards such as H.264/AVC. However, the computational complexity of the H.265/HEVC encoder increases dramatically due to its recursive quadtree repr...

Mobile compute environments provide a unique set of user needs and expectations that designers must consider. With increased multimedia use in mobile environments, video encoding methods within the smart phone market segment are key factors that contribute to positive user experience. Currently available display resolutions and expected cellular bandwidth are major factors the designer must con...

This paper reports the details and results of the subjective evaluations conducted at EPFL to evaluate the responses to the Call for Evidence (CfE) for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) Video Coding issued by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The CfE on HDR/WCG Video Coding aims to explore whether the coding efficiency and/or the functionality of the current version of HEVC...

In this paper, we propose algorithms for the efficient depth map sequence coding in the high efficiency video coding (HEVC). The proposed algorithm is designed to prevent the inefficiency during inloop filter process and implement the intra prediction precisely. The unique characteristic of depth map sequence is that most regions have smooth depth values and abrupt changes are occurred in bound...

This article presents the hardware design of the 16x16 2-D DCT used in the new video coding standard, the HEVC – High Efficiency Video Coding. The transforms stage is one of the innovations proposed by HEVC, since a variable size transforms stage is available (from 4x4 to 32x32), allowing the use of transforms with larger dimensions than used in previous standards. The presented design explores...

High-efficiency video compression technology is of primary importance to the storage and transmission of digital medical video in modern medical communication systems. To further improve the compression performance of medical ultrasound video, two innovative technologies based on diagnostic region-of-interest (ROI) extraction using the high efficiency video coding (H.265/HEVC) standard are pres...

The new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard achieves higher encoding efficiency when compared to its predecessors such as H.264/AVC. One of the factors responsible for this improvement is the new intra prediction method, which introduces a larger number of prediction directions resulting in an enhanced rate-distortion (RD) performance obtained at the cost of higher computational comple...

The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the recent developments in HEVC standardization, particularly focusing on the key features of hybrid coding tools and gives theoretical analysis, summaries of the technological advancements, and compares its performance with the H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC high-profile standard. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a proposed and under development n...

Different level of compression on real-time video streaming has successfully reduced the storage space complexities and bandwidth constraints in the recent times. This paper aims to design and develop a novel concept towards the enhancement of perceptual quality of a real-time video frames. The proposed model has been experimented considering multilevel compression operation using H.265 where ....

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is currently the latest standard in video coding. While this new standard promises improved performance over the previous H.264/AVC standard, the complexity has drastically increased due to the various new improved tools added. The splitting of the 64×64 Largest Coding Unit (LCU) into smaller CU sizes forming a quad tree structure involves a signific...