In the July-September issue of IEEE MultiMedia magazine, InterDigitals’ Yan Ye co-authored a paper exploring “The Scalable Extensions of HEVC for Ultra-High-Definition Video Delivery.” This invited article addresses the current trends in the video delivery marketplace, including the anticipated increase of UHD content being delivered to consumers. Scalable video coding...
Recently in July, at the 18th JCT-VC meeting, the 9th JCT-3V meeting, the 109th MPEG meeting, and the ITU-T SG16 meeting, the 2nd edition of the HEVC standard was completed. This 2nd edition has been approved by ITU-T, and is currently under ballot in ISO/IEC. This is a significant milestone...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society’s publication, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, is considered the flagship peer-reviewed publication in image processing… and has recently appointed our own Dr. Rahul Vanam, a staff engineer in InterDigital Labs, as Associate Editor for the 2015 – 2018 term. IEEE...
Jan Ozer, one of the leading journalists and thought leaders in the streaming content space, recently wrote about HEVC Advance, and the fact that some companies are already offering technologies that claim to reduce the delivery data rate of h.264 and other codecs by as much as 50 percent with...
The amount and variety of content in video is constantly changing. The continuous evolution creates a need for continued compression and standards evolution. Recently, engineers have developed a new extension to HEVC called Screen Content Coding. InterDigital’s Dr. Yan Ye, Director of Engineering, discusses this new extension in a recent article...
On Wednesday, September 27, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the 2017 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award winner will be HEVC, or High Efficiency Video Coding, which is a technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smart phones to stadium displays. The Emmy for...
