High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard will soon reach its final draft. To provide the widely deployed H.264/AVC devices with HEVC video contents, transcoding pre-encoded HEVC video into H.264/AVC format is highly necessary. Computational complexity of H.264 hinders real-time transcoding. In this paper, we propose an efficient HEVC to H.264 intra frame transcoder to accelerate the time-co...

HEVC (MPEG-H Part 2 and H.265) is a new coding technology which is expected to be deployed on the market along with new video services in the near future. HEVC is a successor of currently widely used AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10 and H.264). In this paper, the quality coding gains obtained for the Cascaded Pixel Domain Transcoder of AVC-coded material to HEVC standard are reported. Extensive experiments ...

Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) is a method of entropy coding first introduced in H.264/AVC and now used in the latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. While it provides high coding efficiency, the data dependencies in H.264/AVC CABAC make it challenging to parallelize and thus limit its throughput. Accordingly, during the standardization of entropy coding f...

In this paper, we propose an improved DC prediction method for high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) intra coding. The technique involves the application of pixel-wise predictors rather than block-based predictor in the DC mode. In HEVC, the pixels of neighboring reconstructed blocks are used to support multiple directional spatial prediction modes and reduce spatial redundancy. For lossless codi...

Technologies for coding non-camera-captured video contents have received great interests lately due to the rapid growth of application areas such as wireless display and screen sharing, etc. In response to the market demands, the ITU-T Video Coding Expert Group and ISO/IEC Motion Picture Expert Group have jointly launched a new standardization project, i.e. the HighEfficiency Video Coding (HEVC...

The emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard introduces a number of innovative and powerful coding tools to acquire better compression efficiency compared to its predecessor H.264. The encoding time complexities have also increased multiple times that is not suitable for realtime video coding applications. To address this limitation, this paper employs a novel coding strategy to re...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest attempt by ISO/MPEG and ITU-T/VCEG to define the next generation compression standard beyond H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC. One of the major goals of HEVC is to provide efficient compression for resolutions beyond HDTV. However, the subjective evaluations that led to the selection of technologies were bound to HDTV resolution. Moreover, performance e...

The status of high efficiency video coding development is reviewed based on public available documents in HEVC version 4 standardization process. Here, the requirements and results of call for proposals on screen content coding (SCC) tools for HEVC are presented. The most significant additional coding tools are highlighted. To achieve high coding efficiency in SCC-HEVC, new coding tools that ex...

1. Trends of HEVC Standardization The target of HEVC standardization is to substantially surpass the compression efficiency of the existing MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 international standard,(1) which currently provides the highest compression performance. The expected complexity of HEVC must be an acceptable level for the hardware technology when supported products are put on the market. In the standardi...