N15437, HEVC interlaced video and format range extensions verification test report

This document provides the results of the subjective evaluation activity performed to compare the compression performance of the HEVC and AVC video coding standards on interlaced-scan and format range extensions (RExt) video test material. In particular, compression tests were performed on 8 bit 4:2:0 interlaced-scan video, 10 bit 4:2:2 progressive-scan video, and 10 bit 4:4:4 progressive-scan video test material. For HEVC the Main, Main 4:2:2 10, and Main 4:4:4 10 profiles were used, respectively. Similarly, for AVC, the High and High 4:4:4 Predictive profiles were used (for 4:2:2 content, the High 4:4:4 Predictive profile was used with the chroma format adjusted). The HEVC and AVC bitstreams were produced using recent available versions of the HM and JM reference software, respectively.