3D High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC)

Overview

Already during the initial phase of HEVC, multi-layer extentions were planned and the proper hooks were included into the base specification.

The JCT-3V was established to work on multiview and 3D video coding extensions of HEVC and other video coding standards.

The 3D extension of HEVC (3D-HEVC) provides increased coding efficiency by joint coding of texture and depth for advanced 3D displays.

3D-HEVC is included in the third version of HEVC, which was finalized in February 2015.

Documents

• JCT-3V Documents
• ITU-T Recommendation H.265: High efficiency video coding
• ISO/IEC 23008-2: High efficiency video coding
• Directory of publicly available standards at ISO

MV-HEVC and 3D-HEVC reference software

The reference software for MV- and 3D-HEVC is maintained in an own Subversion repository. Please use a Subversion client to access the repository links directly or use the source browser for web browser access.

• HTM software repository
• HTM software repository (source browser)
• Automatically generated build results for HTM

Bug tracking

Specification and software bugs related to MV- and 3D-HEVC can be reported using the MV- and 3D-HEVC bug tracker:

• MV-/3D-HEVC bug tracker

Overview Papers

• G. Tech, Y. Chen, K. Müller, J.-R. Ohm, A. Vetro, and Y.-K. Wang, "Overview of the Multiview and 3D Extensions of High Efficiency Video Coding", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 35-49, Sept. 2015
• G. J. Sullivan, J. M. Boyce, Y. Chen, J.-R. Ohm, C. A. Segall, and A. Vetro, "Standardized Extensions of High Efficiency Video Coding", IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1001-1016, Dec. 2013