ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the newly developed video coding standard, HEVD/H, which is jointly developed by the JVC of Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Expert Group (VCEG). It also introduces the technical details of some of those important features. The HEVC/H.265 uses several new terminologies to describe its unique block structure, which is different with previous standards. The basic codec structure of HEVC/H.265 is similar to the previous coding standards such as MPEG-2 and H.264. One common feature of video coding standards developed so far is that all use block-based coding structure. The planar mode was introduced to improve the subjective quality of regions containing smooth gradients. This mode is similar to the planar mode in H.264/AVC and is known as mode 0 in HEVC/H.265. HEVC/H.265 uses transform coding of the predictive residual in a similar manner as in prior standards.
