Scalable high efficiency video coding (SHEVC) performance evaluation

Digital video applications cover today a very large range of multimedia application: messaging, HD video telephony and video conferencing. etc. These heterogeneity motivated some years ago the development of the scalable video coding. Therefore, the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) has developed a new Scalable High efficiency Video Coding standard (SHVC) as an extension of HEVC. The SHVC may compress numerous video sequences of various resolutions as a single bit-stream using the inter layer prediction tools. In order to highlight the features' coding efficiency; several analyses were made using numerous High Definition (HD) sequences with various scenarios. In this paper an analysis study has done on the efficiency of SHVC. Results show that multicast coding using SHVC standard provides an average bit rate reduction of more than 30% compared to simulcast. These results demonstrate the improvement in coding efficiency of the SHVC solution with the introduction of inter-layer prediction.