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Overview Papers:

OP1. G.J. Sullivan and J.-R. Ohm, “Recent developments in standardization of high efficiency video coding (HEVC),” Proc. SPIE, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, vol. 7798, pp. 77980V-1 through V-7, San Diego, CA, 13 Aug. 2010.

OP2. G.J. Sullivan et al, “Overview of the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard”, IEEE Trans. CSVT, vol. 22, pp.1649-1668, Dec. 2012.

OP3. HM9 High efficiency video coding (HEVC) Test Model 9 (HM 9) encoder description JCTVC-K1002v2, Shanghai meeting, Oct. 2012.

OP4. M.T. Pourazad et al, “HEVC: The new gold standard for video compression”, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 1, issue 3, pp. 36-46, July 2012.

OP5. G.J. Sullivan et al, “Standardized extensions of high efficiency video coding (HEVC)”, IEEE Journal of selected topics in signal processing, vol. 7, pp. 1001-1016, Dec. 2013.

OP6. J. M. Boyce et al, “Overview of SHVC: Scalable Extensions of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard,” IEEE Trans. on CSVT. vol. 26, pp.20-34, Jan. 2016.

OP7. D. Flynn et al, “Overview of the Range Extensions for the HEVC Standard: Tools, Profiles and Performance,” IEEE Trans. CSVT. vol. 26, pp.4-19, Jan. 2016.

OP8. J. Xu, R. Joshi and R. A. Cohen, “Overview of the Emerging HEVC Screen Content Coding Extension,” IEEE Trans. CSVT. vol. 26, pp.50-62, Jan. 2016.

OP9. G. Tech et al, “Overview of the Multiview and 3D extensions of high efficiency video coding”, IEEE Trans. CSVT. vol. 26, pp.35-49, Jan. 2016.

OP10.Detailed overview of HEVC/H.265: https://app.box.com/s/rxxxzr1a1lnh7709yvih

OP11. W.-H. Peng et al, “Overview of screen content video coding: Technologies, Standards and Beyond”, IEEE JETCAS, vol.6, issue 4, pp.393-408, Dec. 2016. Abstract is reproduced below as a review.

Abstract:

This paper presents recent advances in screen content video coding, with an emphasis on two state-of-the-art standards: HEVC/H.265 Screen Content Coding Extensions (HEVC-SCC) by ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group, and Display Stream Compression (DSC) by Video Electronics Standards Association. The HEVC-SCC enhances the capabilities of HEVC in coding screen content, while DSC provides lightweight compression for display links. Although targeting different application domains, they share some design principles and are expected to become the leading formats in the marketplace in the coming years. This paper provides a brief account of their background, key elements, performance, and complexity characteristics, according to their final specifications. As we survey these standards, we also summarize prior arts in the last decade and explore future research opportunities and standards developments in order to give a comprehensive overview of this field.

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The list of references [OP11] at the end is highly comprehensive covering not only SCC, but also related areas such as BTC, JPEG, JPEG XS, MCC, BTC, MRC, CIC, LZ, MCC, SE, VQ, SSIM among others.

Tutorials:

Tut1. N. Ling, “High efficiency video coding and its 3D extension: A research perspective,” Keynote Speech, ICIEA, Singapore, July 2012.

Tut2. X. Wang et al, “Paralleling variable block size motion estimation of HEVC on CPU plus GPU platform”, IEEE ICME workshop, 2013.

Tut3. H.R. Tohidpour, M.T. Pourazad and P. Nasiopoulos, “Content adaptive complexity reduction scheme for quality/fidelity scalable HEVC”, IEEE ICASSP 2013, pp. 1744-1748, June 2013.

Tut4. M. Wien, “HEVC – coding tools and specifications”, Tutorial, IEEE ICME, San Jose, CA, July 2013.

Tut5. D. Grois, B. Bross and D. Marpe, “HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard (Version 2) including the Range Extensions, Scalable Extensions, and Multiview Extensions,” (Tutorial) Monday 29 June 2015 11.30am-3:00pm , IEEE ICME 2015, Torino, Italy, 29 June – 3 July, 2015.

Tut6. D. Grois, B. Bross and D. Marpe, “HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard including the Range Extensions, Scalable Extensions, and Multiview Extensions,” (Tutorial), IEEE ICCE , Berlin, Germany, 6 – 9 Sept. 2015.

Tut7. D. Grois, B. Bross and D. Marpe, “HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard (Version 2) including the Range Extensions, Scalable Extensions, and Multiview Extensions,” (Tutorial) Sunday 27 Sept 2015, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm), IEEE ICIP, Quebec City, Canada, 27 – 30 Sept. 2015.

This tutorial is for personal use only.

Password: a2FazmgNK

https://datacloud.hhi.fraunhofer.de/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=8edc97d26d46d4458a9c1a17964bf881

Tut8. Please find the links to YouTube videos on the tutorial - HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard including the Range Extensions Scalable Extensions and Multiview Extensions below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLNkK5C1KN8

Tut9 HEVC tutorial by I.E.G. Richardson, www.vcodex.com/h265.html

Tut10 C. Diniz, E. Costa and S. Bampi, “High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC): From Applications to Low-power Hardware Design “, IEEE ISCAS, Montreal, Canada, 22-25 May 2016. Abstract is reproduced below:

Digital video applications are widespread in every consumer electronic devices. Ultra-high resolutions videos (UHD, e.g. 8k×4k and 4k×2k resolutions) are gaining importance in the market. The development of an improved video coding standard with higher efficiency for higher resolution led to the High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC), H.265, published in 2013.This new video coding standard reaches up to approximately double compression efficiency of H.264/AVC standard for similar video quality, due to its sophisticated block partitioning schemes and novel coding algorithms. Its higher compression efficiency comes with a significant increase in computational effort in the video codecs. Real-time HEVC encoding of UHD resolution videos is a challenge, especially considering mobile video capable hardware devices that must consume lower energy to increase battery life. This energy efficiency requirement for future multimedia processors is requiring hardware architecture innovations to integrate multi-core processors with many on-chip hardware accelerators for compute-intensive tasks of the video encoder/decoder. This tutorial covers the algorithms and the dedicated hardware accelerators which are more energy efficient than general purpose processors in performing video tasks. Hardware accelerators will be shown in the tutorial, either as dedicated (ASIC) architectures or as configured/reconfigured FPGA designs. The tutorial starts with an overview the basic concepts on video representation and video coding, before moving to the details of the new HEVC algorithms, data structures, and features. We present a detailed analysis of HEVC video coding application to identify the most compute-intensive tasks of video codec. The second part of the tutorial covers the algorithmic optimization for dedicated hardware design and implementation. The state-of-the-art hardware architectures for video codec blocks are presented. In the end we point to significant future challenges to design low-power HEVC video codec systems. Keywords—Video Coding, HEVC, Compression Algorithms, Hardware Architecture Design.

Tut11. Introduction to Motion estimation and Motion compensation---> http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/cml/dsp/training/coding/motion/me1.html

HEVC presentation: http://www.hardware.fr/news/12901/hevc-passe-ratifie.html

Detailed overview of HEVC/H.265: https://app.box.com/s/rxxxzr1a1lnh7709yvih

HEVC white paper-Ittiam Systems: http://www.ittiam.com/Downloads/en/documentation.aspx

HEVC white paper-Elemental Technologies: http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/lp/hevc-h265-demystified-white-paper

HEVC white paper- http://www.ateme.com/an-introduction-to-uhdtv-and-hevc

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This MSU Codec Comparison is released. It's extremely well done. 

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/codec_comparison_en.html

MSU Video Codecs Comparison (video codec measurement) MSU Video Codecs Comparison MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group) Project head: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin Testing, charts, analysis: Sergey Grishin Translating: Daria ... Read more...

Special sessions:

G.J. Sullivan and Y. Ye, “Recent developments in video coding”, Session Chairs, IEEE DCC, Snow Bird, Utah, 4-7 April 2017.

Transcoders:

Tr1. E. de la Torre, R.R. Sanchez and J.L. Martinez, “Fast video transcoding from HEVC to VP9”, IEEE Trans.  on Consumer electronics, vol. 61, pp.336-343, Aug. 2015.  (This has several valuable references on H.264 to HEVC, mpeg-2 to HEVC, and H.264 to SVC transcoders.)

Tr2. E. Peixoto and E. Izquierdo, “A new complexity scalable transcoder from H.264/AVC to the new HEVC codec”, IEEE ICIP 2012, session MP.P1.13 (Poster), Orlando, FL, Sept.-Oct. 2012.

Tr3. T. Shanableh, E. Peixoto and E. Izquierdo, “MPEG-2 to HEVC transcoding with content based      modeling”, IEEE Trans. CSVT, vol. 23, pp. 1191- 1196, July 2013.

          References [E97] thru [E101] are from VCIP 2012. Pl access http://www.vcip2012.org

          There are also some papers on HEVC in the Demo session.

Tr4. E. Peixoto et al, “An H.264/AVC to HEVC video transcoder based on mode mapping”, IEEE ICIP 2013, WP.P4.3 (poster), Melbourne, Australia, 15-18 Sept. 2013.

Tr5.  E. Peixoto, T. Shanableh and E. Izquierdo, “H.264/AVC to HEVC video transcoder based on dynamic thresholding and content modeling”, IEEE Trans. on CSVT, vol.24, pp.  99 - 112, Jan. 2014.

Tr6.  S. J. Kaware and S. K. Jagtap , “A Survey: Heterogeneous Video Transcoder for H.264/AVC to HEVC”, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (ICPC), pp. 1 – 3 , Pune, India, 8-10 Jan. 2015.

Tr7. E. Peixoto et al, “Fast H.264/AVC to HEVC Transcoding based on Machine Learning”, IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), pp. 1 - 4, 2014. 

Tr8. Y. Chen et al, “Efficient Software H.264/AVC to HEVC Transcoding on Distributed Multicore Processors,” IEEE Trans. on CSVT, vol. 25, no.8, pp. 1423 – 1434, Aug. 2015.

Tr9.  A. J. D. – Honrubia et al, “Adaptive Fast Quadtree Level Decision Algorithm for H.264 to HEVC Video Transcoding,” IEEE Trans. CSVT. vol.26, pp.154-168, Jan. 2016.

Tr10. I. Ahmad, X. Wei, Y. Sun and Y. Zhang, "Video transcoding: an overview of various techniques and research issues," IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 7, pp. 793-804, 2005.

Tr11. A. J. D.-Honrubia et al, “A fast splitting algorithm for an H.264/AVC to HEVC intra video transcoder”, IEEE DCC, Snow Bird, Utah, March-April 2016.

Tr12. D. Zhang et al, “Fast Transcoding from H.264 AVC to High Efficiency Video Coding," in IEEE ICME 2012, pp. 651-656, July 2012.

Tr13. D. Guang et al, “Improved prediction estimation based h.264 to HEVC intra transcoding," in Advances in Multimedia Information Processing PCM 2014, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8879. Springer International Publishing, pp. 64-73, 2014.

Tr14. D. Hingole, “H.265 (HEVC) bitstream to H.264 (MPEG 4 AVC) bitstream transcoder”, M.S. Thesis, EE Dept., University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, Dec. 2015.

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/krrao/dip click on courses and then click on EE5359 Scroll down and go to Thesis/Project Title and click on D. Hingole.

Tr15. M. Sugano et al, “An efficient transcoding from MPEG-2 to MPEG-1”, IEEE ICIP 2001.

Tr16. N. Feamster and S. Wee, “An MPEG-2 to H.263 transcoder”, SPIE conference on multimedia systems and applications II, vol. 3845, pp. 164-175, Sept. 1999.

Tr17. X. lu et al, “Fast mode decision and motion estimation for H.264 with a focus on MPEG-2/H.264 transcoding”, IEEE ISCAS, pp.1246-1249, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.

Tr18. M. Pantoja, H. Kalva and J.B. Lee, “P-frame transcoding in VC-1 to H.264 transcoders”, IEEE ICIP, PP. V-297 ~ V-300, 2007. Also several papers on transcoders.

ENCRYPTION OF HEVC BIT STREAMS

EH1 B. Boyadjis et al, “Extended selective encryption of H.264/AVC (CABAC) and HEVC encoded video streams”, IEEE Trans. CSVT, (early access)

EH-P1 B. Boyadjis et al [EH1], by incorporating selective encryption of CABAC in regular mode have improved the encryption efficiency over the by-pass mode (see Table VI and Fig. 11). In Section V (conclusion and future work), the authors suggest some further studies. Explore and implement future work.

File Format:

FF1. M. M. Hannuksela, J. Lainema and V. K. M. Vadakital, “The high efficiency image file format standards,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 32, pp. 150 – 156, IEEE Trans. CSVT. Vol. (Early Access).

FF2. A draft HEIF standard (03/2015) is available at http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-h/image-file-format/ draft-text-isoiec-fdis-23008-12-carriagestill-image-and-image and the final HEIF standard (ISO/IEC 23008-12) is likely to appear among public ISO standards at http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/.

FF3. The JPEG, Exif, PNG, and GIF specifications are available at http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf, http://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf, http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/, and http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt,respectively.