Research Article
Compression of High Dynamic Range Video Using the HEVC and H.264/AVC Standards
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256318, author={Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi and Maryam Azimi and Mahsa T. Pourazad and Panos Nasiopoulos}, title={Compression of High Dynamic Range Video Using the HEVC and H.264/AVC Standards}, proceedings={10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2014}, month={9}, keywords={high dynamic range hdr hevc h264/avc video compression mean opinion score (mos)}, doi={10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256318} }- Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi
Maryam Azimi
Mahsa T. Pourazad
Panos Nasiopoulos
Year: 2014
Compression of High Dynamic Range Video Using the HEVC and H.264/AVC Standards
QSHINE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256318
Abstract
The existing video coding standards such as H.264/AVC and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) have been designed based on the statistical properties of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) videos and are not accustomed to the characteristics of High Dynamic Range (HDR) content. In this study, we investigate the performance of the latest LDR video compression standard, HEVC, as well as the recent widely commercially used video compression standard, H.264/AVC, on HDR content. Subjective evaluations of results on an HDR display show that viewers clearly prefer the videos coded via an HEVC-based encoder to the ones encoded using an H.264/AVC encoder. In particular, HEVC outperforms H.264/AVC by an average of 10.18% in terms of mean opinion score and 25.08% in terms of bit rate savings.