The primary goals of the meeting were to review the work that was performed in the interim period since the fifteenth JCT-VC meeting in producing the 13th HEVC Test Model (HM13) software and text, the range extensions (RExt) Draft 5 with associated test model and software, the Scalable HEVC (SHVC) extensions Draft 4 with associated test model and software, review the results from four interim Core Experiments on RExt (RCEx) and one Core Experiments on SHVC (SCEx), and review technical input documents. Important topics of the meeting included the review of progress made towards definitions of SHVC and RExt. Advancing the work on development of conformance and reference software for HEVC and its extensions is also a significant goal. Needs for corrections to version 1 were considered, and a verification test plan was set up for HEVC version 1 performance testing.
