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Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC)

The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding is a group of video coding experts from ITU-T Study Group 16 (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) created to develop a new generation video coding standard that will further reduce by 50% the data rate needed for high quality video coding, as compared to the current state-of-the-art AVC standard (ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10).

This new coding standardization codec is called High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and will be published as twin text by ITU, ISO and IEC as ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2 once approval is completed.

ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10, commonly referred to as H.264/MPEG-4-AVC, H.264/AVC, or MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC has been developed as a joint activity within the JVT.

The JCT-VC is co-chaired by Jens-Rainer Ohm and Gary Sullivan, whose contact information is provided below.

Recent developments
 ITU-T Contacts for JCT-VC
  • Mr Gary SULLIVAN
    Rapporteur, Visual coding
    Question 6, ITU-T Study Group 16
    Tel: +1 425 703 5308
    Fax: +1 425 936 7329
    E-mail: garysull@microsoft.com
     
  • Mr Thomas WIEGAND
    Associate Rapporteur, Visual coding
    Question 6, ITU-T Study Group 16
    Tel:+49 30 31002 617
    Fax:+49 30 392 7200
    E-mail: thomas.wiegand@hhi.fraunhofer.de
ISO/IEC Contacts for JCT-VC
  • Mr Jens-Rainer OHM
    Rapporteur, Video Subgroup
    ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG)
    Tel: +49 241 80 27671
    E-mail: ohm@ient.rwth-aachen.de
     
  • Mr Gary SULLIVAN
    Rapporteur, Video Subgroup
    ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG)
    Tel: +1 425 703 5308
    Fax: +1 425 936 7329
    E-mail: garysull@microsoft.com
More reading on HEVC
  • HEVC overview (relatively introductory level): J.-R. Ohm and G. J. Sullivan, “High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) – The Next Frontier in Video Compression”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Standards in a Nutshell column series, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 152–158, Jan. 2013. [IEEExplore]

  • HEVC overview (more in detail): G. J. Sullivan, J.-R. Ohm, W.-J. Han, and T. Wiegand, “Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1649‒1668, Dec. 2012. [IEEExplore (Open access)] [Draft]

  • Compression capability analysis: J.-R. Ohm, G. J. Sullivan, H. Schwarz, T. K. Tan, and T. Wiegand, “Comparison of the Coding Efficiency of Video Coding Standards – Including High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1669‒1684, Dec. 2012. [IEEExplore] [Draft]

  • Complexity and implementation analysis: F. Bossen, B. Bross, K. Suehring, and D. Flynn, “HEVC Complexity and Implementation Analysis”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1685‒1696, Dec. 2012. [IEEExplore] [Draft]
     
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