HEVC Video Codecs Comparison
(Eleventh MSU Video Codecs Comparison)

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Measurements, analysis:
Mikhail Erofeev,
Stanislav Dolganov,
Sergey Zvezdakov
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Objective Metrics SSIM SSIM, PSNR
Different types of analysis
 Encoding quality, encoding speed, bitarte handling, speed/quality analysis etc. (some graphs) Encoding quality, encoding speed, bitarte handling, speed/quality analysis etc.
ColorPlanes Only overall YUV Y, U, V and overall YUV
Graphs Some graphs All the graphs for all the metrcis, codecs and presets
Test video sequences 27 HD video (only description) 10 4K video (only description) 27 HD video (available for download) 27 HD video + 10 4K video (available for download)
Tested uses-cases 3 different use cases:
Fast Transcoding, Universal and Ripping (some graphs)		 4K transcoding(some graphs) 3 different use cases:
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Report Overview

Video Codecs that Were Tested

  • HEVC
  • Chips&Media HEVC Encoder
  • Intel MSS HEVC Encoder
  • Kingsoft HEVC Encoder
  • nj265
  • SHBPH.265 Real time encoder
  • x265
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  • Non HEVC
  • nj264
  • x264
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    Overview

    Objectives and Testing Tools

    HEVC Codec Testing Objectives

    The main goal of this report is the presentation of a comparative evaluation of the quality of new HEVC codecs and codecs of other standards using objective measures of assessment. The comparison was done using settings provided by the developers of each codec. Nevertheless, we required all presets to satisfy minimum speed requirement on the particular use case. The main task of the comparison is to analyze different encoders for the task of transcoding video—e.g., compressing video for personal use.

    HEVC Codec Testing Rools

    The comparison was performed on Corei7 6700K (Skylake) @4Ghz, RAM 8GB, Windows8.1. For this platform we considered three key use cases with different speed requirements.
    • Fast/High Density – 1080@60fps
    • Universal/Broadcast VQ – 1080p@25fps
    • Ripping/Pristine VQ – 1080p@1fps and SSIM-RD curve better than x264-veryslow

    Video sequences selection

    Video sequences for all of MSU video codec comaprison reports were choosen by MSU team through manual selection. Various videos were selected to help to find the strengths and weaknesses of video encoders. This comparison’s test dataset was significantly updated. Our goal was to create dataset with videos that encoders are facing in everyday life. For this purpose 30000 videos from Vimeo service were analyzed and 885 4K videos with high bitrate were analyzed. These videos were clusterized (by spatial and temporal complexity) and 27 video from the clusters were chosen.

    Video sequecnes selection

    Overall Conclusions

    Overall, the leaders in this comparison are Intel MSS HEVC and Kingsoft HEVC encoders! Here are some overall graphs from report:
    Speed/Quality trade-off for Fast use-case (YUV-SSIM metric)
    Average bitrate for Universal use-case (YUV-SSIM metric)
    Average bitrate for all use-cases (YUV-SSIM metric)

    Professional Versions of Comparison Report

    HEVC Comparison Report Pro 2016 version contains:
  • Additional objective metrics (PSNR, SSIM)
  • All metrics results for all colorplanes (Y,U,V and overall)
  • Results for all the sequences, codecs and presets used in comparison
  • Much more figures
  • etc.
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    Acknowledgments

    The Graphics & Media Lab Video Group would like to express its gratitude to the following companies for providing the codecs and settings used in this report:
  • Intel Corporation
  • ”System house ”Business partners” company
  • x264 developer team
  • MulticoreWare, Inc.
  • Nanjing Yunyan
  • Kingsoft
  • Chips&Media Inc.
    • The Video Group would also like to thank these companies for their help and technical support during the tests.

    Thanks

    Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons

    Google Intel AMD NVidia
    ATI Adobe ISPhone dicas
    KDDI R&D labs Dolby Tata Elxsi Octasic
    Qualcomm Voceweb Elgato

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    See all MSU Video Codecs Comparisons

    MSU video codecs comparisons resources:

    Other Materials

    Video resources:

    3D and stereo video
    Projects on 3D and stereo video processing and analysis
    MSU Video Quality Measurement tools
    Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation     		Codecs comparisons
    Objective and subjective quality evaluation
    tests for video and image codecs
    Ext. link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison
    Public MSU video filters
    Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. For a given type of digital video filtration we typically develop a family of different algorithms and implementations. Generally there are also versions optimized for PC and hardware implementations (ASIC/FPGA/DSP). These optimized versions can be licensed to companies. Please contact us for details via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru.     		Filters for companies
    We are working with Intel, Samsung, RealNetworks and other companies on adapting our filters other video processing algorithms for specific video streams, applications and hardware like TV-sets, graphics cards, etc. Some of such projects are non-exclusive. Also we have internal researches. Please let us know via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru if you are interested in acquiring a license for such filters or making a custom R&D project on video processing, compression, computer vision.
    Video codecs projects
    Different research and development
    projects on video codecs     		Other
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