High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification (Hardcover)

The video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) targets at improved compression performance for video resolutions of HD and beyond, providing Ultra HD video at similar compressed bit rates as for HD video encoded with the well-established video coding standard H.264/AVC. Based on known concepts, new coding structures and improved coding tools have been developed and specified in HEVC. The standard is expected to be taken up easily by established industry as well as new endeavors, answering the needs of todays connected and ever-evolving online world.

This book presents the High Efficiency Video Coding standard and explains it in a clear and coherent language. It provides a comprehensive and consistently written description, all of a piece. The book targets at both, newbies to video coding as well as experts in the field. While providing sections with introductory text for the beginner, it suits as a well-arranged reference book for the expert. The book provides a comprehensive reference for the technical details of the employed coding tools; it further outlines the algorithmic advances compared to H.264/AVC. In addition to the technical aspects, the book provides insight to the general concepts of standardization, how specification text is written, and how these concepts apply to the HEVC specification.

高效能視訊編碼（HEVC）是一種視訊編碼標準，旨在提高高清及更高解析度視訊的壓縮效能，以相似的壓縮比特率提供超高清視訊，與使用廣泛的H.264/AVC視訊編碼標準編碼的高清視訊相比。HEVC基於已知概念，開發並指定了新的編碼結構和改進的編碼工具。該標準預計將受到已建立的行業以及新興企業的廣泛應用，以滿足當今連接且不斷發展的線上世界的需求。

本書介紹了高效能視訊編碼標準並以清晰連貫的語言進行解釋。它提供了全面且一貫的描述。本書針對視訊編碼的新手和專家，提供了初學者的入門部分，同時也適合作為專家的參考書。本書提供了所使用編碼工具的技術細節的全面參考；此外，它還概述了與H.264/AVC相比的算法進步。除了技術方面，本書還提供了標準化的一般概念，說明了如何撰寫規範文件以及這些概念如何應用於HEVC規範。