Title
Introduction to the issue on video coding: HEVC and beyond
Authors
[ 1 ] Katedra Telekomunikacji Multimedialnej i Mikroelektroniki, Wydział Elektroniki i Telekomunikacji, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
Year of publication
2013
Published in
Article type
scientific article
Publication language
english
Abstract
EN Currently, video communication represents more than half of the entire network traffic, with a tendency for fast increase. Therefore, techniques aiming at more efficient compression of video are of paramount importance as they could provide means to avoid the “spectrum crunch” in mobile networks or to impede the increase of energy consumed by communication networks. A substantial amount of effort has been made in this area during the recent past years, which resulted in the new generation of video compression technology and the corresponding standard, called High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). For similar video quality, HEVC bitstreams consume only about half of the bitrate of the previous H.264/AVC bitstreams. The compression capability of HEVC establishes a new benchmark both in video and still image coding. Thanks to the efforts from 117 reviewers, this special issue finally selected 18 papers reflecting the recent research in HEVC standardization, possible add-on techniques and totally new ideas; in addition, an invited paper by the HEVC extension group representatives gives a detailed review of the ongoing activities on the HEVC extensions. We classify all 19 accepted papers into four categories and give a brief introduction to each of them.
Pages (from - to)
931 - 933
Ministry points / journal
45
Impact Factor
3,629
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