This paper provides an overview of SHVC, the scalable extensions of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, published in the second version of HEVC. In addition to the temporal scalability already provided by the first version of HEVC, SHVC further provides spatial, SNR, bit depth, and color gamut scalability functionalities, as well as combinations of any of these. The SHVC architecture design enables SHVC implementations to be built using multiple repurposed single-layer HEVC codec cores, with the addition of inter-layer reference picture processing modules. The general multi-layer high-level syntax design common to all multi-layer HEVC extensions, including SHVC, MV-HEVC, and 3D-HEVC, is described. The inter-layer reference picture processing modules, including texture and motion resampling and color mapping, are also described. Performance comparisons are provided of SHVC versus simulcast HEVC and versus the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension to H.264/AVC. Index Terms-SHVC, HEVC, JCT-VC, JCT-3V, MPEG, scalable video coding, SVC, video standards, VCEG, video compression.Y. Ye is with InterDigital Communications LLC,