The primary goals of the meeting were to review the work that was performed in the interim period since the ninth JCT-VC meeting in producing the 7th HEVC Test Model (HM) software and text and editing the 7th HEVC specification Working Draft (WD7), review the results from interim Core Experiments (CEs), review technical input documents, establish the 8th draft of the HEVC specification and the 8th version of the HEVC Test Model (HM8), and plan a new set of Core Experiments (CEs) for further investigation of proposed technology.