I. Introduction
Versatile Video Coding for that its abbreviation VVC is interchangeably used, is the emerging International standard that is being developed by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) of ITU-T Question 6 (Visual coding) of Working Party 3 (Media coding) of Study Group 16 (Multimedia coding, systems and applications) unofficially known as Visual coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11 also referred to as Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). This activity encompasses 2 phases:
The 1st phase initially started in October 2015 with founding JVET as the Joint Video Exploration Team was aimed at exploring such video coding tools that could provide compression performance beyond H.265/HEVC. To make it possible, the reference software known as Joint Exploration Model (JEM) was developed based on the HEVC Test Model (HM) version 16.6.
The 2nd phase began in April 2018 after reviewing the responses to the Call for Proposals (CfP) [1] issued in October 2017 at the JVET meeting in Macao is a continuation of the previous one and is targeting a new video coding standard that shall include mature tools covering a wide range of applications and implementable in both hardware and software.