Boyce, J.M.J.M.BoyceChen, J.J.ChenLiu, S.S.LiuOhm, J.-R.J.-R.OhmSullivan, G.J.G.J.SullivanWiegand, T.T.WiegandYe, Y.Y.YeZhu, W.W.Zhu2022-05-062022-05-062021https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/41602510.1109/TCSVT.2021.3111712In this Special Section of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, it is our honor to introduce the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, the latest of the historic partnership collaborations between the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in the field of video coding standardization.en621journal article