ZTE Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (1): 12-18.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.01.002

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An Introduction to High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extensions

Bin Li, Jizheng Xu   

  1. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received:2015-11-15 Online:2016-02-01 Published:2019-11-27
  • About author:Bin Li (libin@microsoft.com) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China, as an Associate Researcher in 2013. He has authored or co-authored over 20 papers. He holds over 10 granted or pending U.S. patents in the area of image and video coding. He has more than 30 technical proposals that have been adopted by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding. His current research interests include video coding, processing, and communication. Dr. Li received the best paper award for the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia from Association for Computing Machinery in 2011. He received the Top 10% Paper Award of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. He has been an active contributor to ISO/MPEG and ITU-T video coding standards. (JCTVC). He is currently the Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Group of Screen Content Coding extensions software development. Jizheng Xu (jzxu@microsoft.com) (M’07-SM’10) received the B.S. and M. S. degrees in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in 2003 and currently he is a Lead Researcher. He has authored and co-authored over 100 conference and journal refereed papers. He has over 30 U.S. patents granted or pending in image and video coding. His research interests include image and video representation, media compression, and communication. He has been an active contributor to ISO/ MPEG and ITU-T video coding standards. He has over 40 technical proposals adopted by H.264/AVC, H.264/AVC scalable extension, High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC range extension and HEVC screen content coding standards. He chaired and co-chaired the ad-hoc group of exploration on wavelet video coding in MPEG, and various technical ad-hoc groups in JCT-VC, e.g., on screen content coding, on parsing robustness, on lossless coding. He co-organized and co-chaired special sessions on scalable video coding, directional transform, high quality video coding at various conferences. He also served as special session co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2014.

An Introduction to High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extensions

Bin Li, Jizheng Xu   

  1. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China
  • 作者简介:Bin Li (libin@microsoft.com) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China, as an Associate Researcher in 2013. He has authored or co-authored over 20 papers. He holds over 10 granted or pending U.S. patents in the area of image and video coding. He has more than 30 technical proposals that have been adopted by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding. His current research interests include video coding, processing, and communication. Dr. Li received the best paper award for the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia from Association for Computing Machinery in 2011. He received the Top 10% Paper Award of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. He has been an active contributor to ISO/MPEG and ITU-T video coding standards. (JCTVC). He is currently the Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Group of Screen Content Coding extensions software development. Jizheng Xu (jzxu@microsoft.com) (M’07-SM’10) received the B.S. and M. S. degrees in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in 2003 and currently he is a Lead Researcher. He has authored and co-authored over 100 conference and journal refereed papers. He has over 30 U.S. patents granted or pending in image and video coding. His research interests include image and video representation, media compression, and communication. He has been an active contributor to ISO/ MPEG and ITU-T video coding standards. He has over 40 technical proposals adopted by H.264/AVC, H.264/AVC scalable extension, High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC range extension and HEVC screen content coding standards. He chaired and co-chaired the ad-hoc group of exploration on wavelet video coding in MPEG, and various technical ad-hoc groups in JCT-VC, e.g., on screen content coding, on parsing robustness, on lossless coding. He co-organized and co-chaired special sessions on scalable video coding, directional transform, high quality video coding at various conferences. He also served as special session co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2014.

Abstract: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest international video coding standard, which can provide the similar quality with about half bandwidth compared with its predecessor, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. To meet the requirement of higher bit depth coding and more chroma sampling formats, range extensions of HEVC were developed. This paper introduces the coding tools in HEVC range extensions and provides experimental results to compare HEVC range extensions with previous video coding standards. Ex?perimental results show that HEVC range extensions improve coding efficiency much over H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Predictive profile, especially for 4K sequences.

Key words: H.265, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), MPEG-H, range extensions, video compression

摘要: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest international video coding standard, which can provide the similar quality with about half bandwidth compared with its predecessor, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. To meet the requirement of higher bit depth coding and more chroma sampling formats, range extensions of HEVC were developed. This paper introduces the coding tools in HEVC range extensions and provides experimental results to compare HEVC range extensions with previous video coding standards. Ex?perimental results show that HEVC range extensions improve coding efficiency much over H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Predictive profile, especially for 4K sequences.

关键词: H.265, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), MPEG-H, range extensions, video compression