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BR: Bit rate.

B-VSP: Backward view synthesis prediction.

CABAC: Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding.

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.

DF: Deblocking filter.