Improved video compression technology and the emerging high efficiency video coding standard
Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand, Sebastian Bosse, Benjamin A. Bross, Philipp Helle, Tobias Hinz, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Haricharan Lakshman, Tung Lam Nguyen, Simon Oudin, Mischa Siekmann, Karsten Sühring, Martin Winken · 2011
Today, H.264/AVC is the state-of-the-art video coding standard. Especially after the 2004 development of its High Profile (HP), it has become one of the primary formats in high definition video content delivery. Recently, a joint Call for Proposals (CfP) on video compression technology has been issued by ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG, targeting at the next generation of video compression standards with substantially higher compression capability than H.264/AVC. As a response to this CfP, Fraunhofer HHI proposed a newly developed video coding scheme which achieves bit rate savings of around 30% when compared to H.264/AVC HP. This paper describes the proposed video coding scheme and discusses its innovative features.