Performance Evaluation of the Emerging Scalable Video Coding

A new scalable video coding (SVC) has been standardized in the Joint Video Team (JVT) of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), which will be released as an extension to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. In this paper, we evaluate performance of SVC especially regarding new coding tools not included in H.264. We also present the overhead bit-rate and coding efficiency to support spatial, temporal, and quality scalability.