A fast coding unit (CU) decision method is proposed for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) by determining early the CU sizes based on coding tree pruning. One of the most effective, a newly introduced concept in HEVC, is variable CU size. In determining the best CU size, the reference encoder of the HEVC tests every possible CU size in order to estimate the coding performance of each CU define...

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is the next-generation video coding standard being jointly developed by the ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG JCT-VC team. In addition to the high coding efficiency, which is expected to provide 50% more bit-rate reduction when compared to H.264/AVC, HEVC has built-in parallel processing tools to address bitrate, pixel-rate and motion estimation (ME) throughput req...

 (LZ-C00): Review and editorial improvements.  (3DN-37/JCT3V-F0122) HTM support of depth coding in MV-HEVC: software adoption  (3DN-36/JCT3V-F0138) 3D-HEVC HLS: Inter-view Updating Mechanism for Coding of DLT  (3DN-35/JCT3V-F0131/JCT3V-F0139) Depth Lookup Table Coding for 3D-HEVC  (3DN-34/JCT3V-F0125) CE3: Inter-view motion vector prediction for depth coding  (3DN-33/JCT3V-F0110) 3D-CE3: ...

In order to compare the performance and complexity without significant rate-distortion performance degradation, the HEVC coder vs. H.264/AVC coder are tested for the fixed Quantization Parameter (QP) value, when Main profile, appropriate motion vector (MV) search ranges and hierarchical B pictures are used. Simulation results have shown that the encoding time saving is reduced up to 50%, while ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the state-of-art-video coding standard which significantly improved the coding efficiency of a coded video signal with its preceding video coding standards. This paper presents technical aspects of HEVC thought objective and subjective performance analysis of different versions of HM software test models in different configurations in Main profile. We comp...

This work presents the design implementation of a 8points 1-D IDCT used in the emerging video coding standard HEVC – High Efficiency Video Coding. The 8-points 1-D IDCT is used in the 8x8 2-D IDCT of the HEVC standard. The IDCT is performed by the video encoder and decoder as well. The hardware design implementation was done in order to enable real time video coding processing. The architecture...

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the newest video coding generation of the ITU-T and ISO/IEC, which first appeared in January 2013. It has the advantage of reducing the bit rate by as much as 50 % when compared to H.264 while maintaining the same visual quality. In the last decade, authentication and copyright protection methodologies have become one of the essential items in order to pro...

It is only a matter of time before High Dynamic Range (HDR) video content becomes commercially available. It is necessary, therefore, to develop proper video compression standards that address the peculiarities of this content and enable the introduction of this technology to the consumer market. So far there is no dedicated standard for HDR content. This paper investigates the performance of t...