Performance comparison of H.265/MPEG-HEVC, VP9, and H.264/MPEG-AVC encoders

Dan Grois, Detlev Marpe, Amit Mulayoff, Benaya Itzhaky, Ofer Hadar

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    Abstract

    This work presents a performance comparison of the two latest video coding standards H.264/MPEG-AVC and H.265/MPEG-HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) as well as the recently published proprietary video coding scheme VP9. According to the experimental results, which were obtained for a whole test set of video sequences by using similar encoding configurations for all three examined representative encoders, H.265/MPEG-HEVC provides significant average bit-rate savings of 43.3% and 39.3% relative to VP9 and H.264/MPEG-AVC, respectively. As a particular aspect of the conducted experiments, it turned out that the VP9 encoder produces an average bit-rate overhead of 8.4% at the same objective quality, when compared to an open H.264/MPEG-AVC encoder implementation - the x264 encoder. On the other hand, the typical encoding times of the VP9 encoder are more than 100 times higher than those measured for the x264 encoder. When compared to the full-fledged H.265/MPEG-HEVC reference software encoder implementation, the VP9 encoding times are lower by a factor of 7.35, on average.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2013 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2013 - Proceedings
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Pages394-397
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)9781479902941
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
    Event2013 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2013 - San Jose, CA, United States
    Duration: 8 Dec 201311 Dec 2013

    Publication series

    Name2013 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2013 - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2013 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2013
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Jose, CA
    Period8/12/1311/12/13

    Keywords

    • AVC
    • Coding efficiency
    • H.264
    • H.265
    • High efficiency video coding (HEVC)
    • VP9
    • Video coding
    • X264

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    • Software

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