HEIF

HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) is the lossy image (and animation?) format defined by MPEG-H Part 12 (ISO/IEC 23008-12). As of 2017-06, it is still under development.

It is closely related to the HEVC video format, so in that way it is similar to BPG. It uses ISO Base Media File Format as a container format, so in that way it is similar to JPEG 2000.

Identifiers
Based on draft specifications, it uses the brands  and.

Links

 * High Efficiency Image File Format
 * HEIF information from the MPEG website
 * HEIF information from Nokia Technologies
 * Software at GitHub
 * ISO/IEC 23008-12

See also MPEG-H.