Evaluation of new HEVC coding tools
This Technical Report gathers the opportunities for improving HEVC-based services. This includes documentation of motivating use cases and scenarios. Specifically, potential of improving on the following use cases are identified: the compression performance for stereoscopic 3D content, the network performance related to exploding adaptive streaming traffic, and the demands for very high-quality image applications. HEVC based solutions to address each opportunity are identified: HEVC Multiview profiles, HEVC Scalable profiles, and HEVC 4:4:4 (up to 10 bits) capable profiles. Methodologies to investigate and document the pros and cons of the proposed solutions for each use case are documented. Finally, conclusions are drawn on the relevancy of solutions and if any new normative specification work is to be done.