CD: Committee draft – the first formal ballot stage of the approval process in ISO/IEC.
CE: Core experiment – a coordinated experiment conducted between two subsequent JCT-3V meetings and approved to be considered a CE by the group.
Consent: A step taken in ITU-T to formally consider a text as a candidate for final approval (the primary stage of the ITU-T "alternative approval process").
CPB: Coded picture buffer.
CTC: Common test conditions.
DBBP: Depth based block partitioning.
DC: Disparity compensation
DIS: Draft international standard – the second formal ballot stage of the approval process in ISO/IEC.