# Breaking Research News and a Brand New uvg266 VVC Encoder from Ultra Video Group
_by Vanne Jarno & Alexandre Mercat (Tampere University, Finland) - 2022.05.24_

###### tags: `VAADER` `Seminar`

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## Abstract
This presentation is given in two parts:

The first part provides the latest research news and insights from Ultra Video Group (UVG) that is the #1 academic video research team in Finland. First, the talk introduces the UVG group and its recent activities in the fields of video coding, processing, and streaming. Then, the deployment of different UVG media technologies is described by means of example use cases, where UVG’s vision-based remote communication, control, and monitoring solutions are used in distance working, manufacturing industry, and semi-autonomous driving. The main motivation of this presentation is to raise awareness of these hot research topics, provides food for thought, and set the scene for new collaboration opportunities between the VAADER and UVG teams.

The second part of the presentation dives into UVG’s brand-new uvg266 encoder that supports the latest Versatile Video Coding (VVC/H.266) standard. VVC is shown to double the coding efficiency over its predecessor, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265), for the same subjective visual quality. However, it still adopts the similar hybrid video coding scheme as HEVC and thereby sets the scene for reusing many coding tools and techniques of UVG’s Kvazaar open-source HEVC encoder. The chosen approach has boosted the development of uvg266 and made it the first academic open-source software encoder for practical VVC encoding. These activities have also given UVG a firm foothold as an academic trailblazer in VVC coding domain.

## Video
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