Recent developments in standardization of HEVC or H.265

The paper "Recent developments in standardization of high efficiency video coding (HEVC)" is

http://www-ee.uta.edu/Dip/Courses/EE5355/HEVC.pdf

Some progress at

http://www.vcodex.com/h265.html

High Efficiency Video Coding / HEVC / H.265 : Beyond H.264

Vcodex, May 2010

"Work is continuing on the new video coding standard, currently known as "High Efficiency Video Coding" (HEVC). A Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) has been set up by ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. Following a Call for Proposals in January, 27 proposals were submitted to the first meeting of the JCT-VC in April. Elements of some of these proposals have been combined to develop an initial Test Model, a starting point for development of the new standard. The initial Test Model has similarities to earlier standards such as H.264/AVC, including block-based intra/inter prediction, block transform and entropy coding. New features include increased prediction flexibility, more sophisticated interpolation filters, a wider range of block sizes and new entropy coding schemes. Coding performance varies across the different proposals. It looks like we might expect to see a 2x compression improvement compared with H.264/AVC (i.e. half the bitrate at the same visual quality), at the expense of a significant increase in computational complexity (perhaps 3x or more). You can find the technical proposals here."

"Report of Subjective Test Results of Responses to the Joint Call for Proposals (CfP) on Video Coding Technology for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)" can be found @

http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jctvc-si...JCTVC-A204.zip