In order to assess the progress made in the development of IVC since a similar previous investigation that was conducted during the 107th MPEG meeting, as reported in N14240, in order to identify merits and enable planning of further actions. Part of this comparison was to try to investigate visual quality under as comparable conditions of encoding settings as possible. To simplify the preparation, no new encodings were prepared for WVC and VCB, and the sequences and conditions were kept as in the previous comparison. For IVC, where the previous comparison had been based on ITM7, new technology elements that were included in ITM8, 9 and 10 (corresponding to WD 1, 2 and 3, respectively) were enabled in the codec settings. The results are documented in N14989. Due to late availability it was not possible to make a meaningful evaluation during the meeting, such that decisions about conclusions and follow-up actions can only be taken during the 111th meeting.
