The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (jct-vc) of itu-t wp3/16 and iso/iec jtc 1/ sc 29/ wg 11 held its tenth meeting during 11-20 July 2012 at the City Conference Centre (ccc), a k. a

5.9.2Sample adaptive offset

The following documents were initially discussed in a BoG, and dispositions later confirmed in Track B All decisions on SAO are documented under BoG report J0563.

5.9.2.1SAO merge flags

Recommendation of BoG: to use only one context for merge syntax with current initialization (J0041 and J0054 and partially in J0178) if merge will be in a design.

Decision: Adopt.

JCTVC-J0041 AHG5/AHG6: On reducing context models for SAO merge syntax [E. Alshina, A. Alshin, J.H. Park, (Samsung), C.-M. Fu, Y.-W. Huang, S. Lei (MediaTek)]

This contribution reduces 3 context models in HEVC design with small gain (−0.04%). This was discussed further after related contributions review.