Volume 22 Issue 12 • Dec. 2012
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Combined Issue on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard and Research
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Introduction to the Special Section on the HEVC Standard
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Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1649 - 1668
Cited by: Papers (2060) | Patents (104)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is currently being prepared as the newest video coding standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goal of the HEVC standardization effort is to enable significantly improved compression performance relative to existing standards-in the range of 50% bit-rate reduction for equal perceptual video quality.... View full abstract»
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Comparison of the Coding Efficiency of Video Coding Standards—Including High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1669 - 1684
Cited by: Papers (506) | Patents (5)The compression capability of several generations of video coding standards is compared by means of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and subjective testing results. A unified approach is applied to the analysis of designs, including H.262/MPEG-2 Video, H.263, MPEG-4 Visual, H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The results of subjective tests for WVGA ... View full abstract»
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HEVC Complexity and Implementation Analysis
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1685 - 1696
Cited by: Papers (356) | Patents (4)Advances in video compression technology have been driven by ever-increasing processing power available in software and hardware. The emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard aims to provide a doubling in coding efficiency with respect to the H.264/AVC high profile, delivering the same video quality at half the bit rate. In this paper, complexity-related aspects that were considered i... View full abstract»
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Block Partitioning Structure in the HEVC Standard
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1697 - 1706
Cited by: Papers (165) | Patents (4)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest joint standardization effort of ITU-T WP 3/16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11. The resultant standard will be published as twin text by ITU-T and ISO/IEC; in the latter case, it will also be known as MPEG-H Part 2. This paper describes the block partitioning structure of the draft HEVC standard and presents the results of an analysis of coding effici... View full abstract»
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Quadtree Based Nonsquare Block Structure for Inter Frame Coding in High Efficiency Video Coding
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1707 - 1719
Cited by: Papers (21) | Patents (1)A concept of a quadtree based nonsquare block coding structure is presented in this paper for the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding standard, which includes a quadtree based asymmetric motion partitioning scheme and a nonsquare quadtree transform (NSQT) algorithm. Nonsquare motion partitioning in inter frame coding provides the possibility of getting more accurate prediction results by splitti... View full abstract»
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Block Merging for Quadtree-Based Partitioning in HEVC
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1720 - 1731
Cited by: Papers (66) | Patents (6)The joint development of the upcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard by ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group marks a new step in video compression capability. In technical terms, HEVC is a hybrid video-coding approach using quadtree-based block partitioning together with motion-compensated prediction. Even though a high degree of adaptability is a... View full abstract»
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Decoder-Side Motion Vector Derivation for Block-Based Video Coding
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1732 - 1745
Cited by: Papers (4) | Patents (3)A decoder-side motion vector derivation algorithm for hybrid video coding is proposed. The algorithm is based on template matching and aims to reduce motion parameter bit-rate by re-estimating the applicable motion parameters at the decoder side. An average bit-rate savings of about 6%-8% is observed compared to the reference H.264/AVC. Decoder-side motion vector derivation was included in multipl... View full abstract»
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HEVC Deblocking Filter
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1746 - 1754
Cited by: Papers (90) | Patents (3)This paper describes the in-loop deblocking filter used in the upcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard to reduce visible artifacts at block boundaries. The deblocking filter performs detection of the artifacts at the coded block boundaries and attenuates them by applying a selected filter. Compared to the H.264/AVC deblocking filter, the HEVC deblocking filter has lower computational... View full abstract»
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Sample Adaptive Offset in the HEVC Standard
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1755 - 1764
Cited by: Papers (109) | Patents (22)This paper provides a technical overview of a newly added in-loop filtering technique, sample adaptive offset (SAO), in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The key idea of SAO is to reduce sample distortion by first classifying reconstructed samples into different categories, obtaining an offset for each category, and then adding the offset to each sample of the category. The offset of each categ... View full abstract»
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Transform Coefficient Coding in HEVC
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1765 - 1777
Cited by: Papers (55) | Patents (19)This paper describes transform coefficient coding in the draft international standard of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) specification and the driving motivations behind its design. Transform coefficient coding in HEVC encompasses the scanning patterns and coding methods for the last significant coefficient, significance map, coefficient levels, and sign data. Special attention is paid to the ... View full abstract»
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High Throughput CABAC Entropy Coding in HEVC
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1778 - 1791
Cited by: Papers (56) | Patents (8)Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CAB-AC) is a method of entropy coding first introduced in H.264/AVC and now used in the newest standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). 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 for HEVC... View full abstract»
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Intra Coding of the HEVC Standard
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1792 - 1801
Cited by: Papers (217) | Patents (5)This paper provides an overview of the intra coding techniques in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard being developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). The intra coding framework of HEVC follows that of traditional hybrid codecs and is built on spatial sample prediction followed by transform coding and postprocessing steps. Novel features contributing to the in... View full abstract»
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Adaptive Global Motion Temporal Filtering for High Efficiency Video Coding
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1802 - 1812
Cited by: Papers (10)Coding artifacts in video codecs can be reduced using several spatial in-loop filters that are part of the emerging video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). In this paper, we introduce the concept of global motion temporal filtering. A theoretical framework for a concept combining the temporal overlapping of several noisy versions of the same signal is introduced. This includes a... View full abstract»
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Spatially Scalable Video Coding For HEVC
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1813 - 1826
Cited by: Papers (19) | Patents (4)Spatially scalable video coding (SSVC) provides an efficient way to transmit one video at different resolutions. Based on the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), we propose an SSVC scheme to support both single-loop (SL) and multiloop (ML) solutions by enabling different interlayer prediction mechanisms. Specifically, we employ two interlayer prediction modes: quadtree-based prediction m... View full abstract»
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Parallel Scalability and Efficiency of HEVC Parallelization Approaches
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1827 - 1838
Cited by: Papers (113) | Patents (4)Unlike H.264/advanced video coding, where parallelism was an afterthought, High Efficiency Video Coding currently contains several proposals aimed at making it more parallel-friendly. A performance comparison of the different proposals, however, has not yet been performed. In this paper, we will fill this gap by presenting efficient implementations of the most promising parallelization proposals, ... View full abstract»
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HEVC Lossless Coding and Improvements
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1839 - 1843
Cited by: Papers (47)The lossless coding mode of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) main profile that bypasses transform, quantization, and in-loop filters is described. Compared to the HEVC nonlossless coding mode with the smallest quantization parameter value (i.e., 0 for 8-b video and -12 for 10-b video), the HEVC lossless coding mode provides perfect fidelity and an average bit-rate reduction of 3.2%-13.2%. I... View full abstract»
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Rate-Distortion Optimized Reference Picture Management for High Efficiency Video Coding
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1844 - 1857
Cited by: Papers (17)Motion compensation with multiple reference pictures has been widely used during the development of the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, which greatly helps to improve the coding efficiency. Usually, a heuristic strategy is exploited to use the nearest reconstructed pictures as references. However, such a strategy may not be efficient on all occasions, especially when differe... View full abstract»
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Overview of HEVC High-Level Syntax and Reference Picture Management
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1858 - 1870
Cited by: Papers (36) | Patents (74)The increasing proportion of video traffic in telecommunication networks puts an emphasis on efficient video compression technology. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the forthcoming video coding standard that provides substantial bit rate reductions compared to its predecessors. In the HEVC standardization process, technologies such as picture partitioning, reference picture management, and ... View full abstract»
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System Layer Integration of High Efficiency Video Coding
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1871 - 1884
Cited by: Papers (40) | Patents (13)This paper describes the integration of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) into end-to-end multimedia systems, formats, and protocols such as Real-time transport Protocol, the transport stream of the MPEG-2 standard suite, and dynamic adaptive streaming over the Hypertext Transport Protocol. This paper gives a brief overview of the high-level syntax of HEVC and the relation to the Advanced Video ... View full abstract»
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Comparative Rate-Distortion-Complexity Analysis of HEVC and AVC Video Codecs
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1885 - 1898
Cited by: Papers (132)This paper analyzes the rate-distortion-complexity of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) reference video codec (HM) and compares the results with AVC reference codec (JM). The examined software codecs are HM 6.0 using Main Profile (MP) and JM 18.0 using High Profile (HiP). These codes are benchmarked under the all-intra (AI), random access (RA), low-delay B (LB), and low-delay P (LP... View full abstract»
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Performance and Computational Complexity Assessment of High-Efficiency Video Encoders
Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1899 - 1909
Cited by: Papers (73)This paper presents a performance evaluation study of coding efficiency versus computational complexity for the forthcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. A thorough experimental investigation was carried out to identify the tools that most affect the encoding efficiency and computational complexity of the HEVC encoder. A set of 16 different encoding configurations was created to in... View full abstract»
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