TY - GEN
T1 - No-reference video quality evaluation for high-definition video
AU - Keimel, Christian
AU - Oelbaum, Tobias
AU - Diepold, Klaus
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A no-reference video quality metric for High-Definition video is introduced. This metric evaluates a set of simple features such as blocking or blurring, and combines those features into one parameter representing visual quality. While only comparably few base feature measurements are used, additional parameters are gained by evaluating changes for these measurements over time and using additional temporal pooling methods. To take into account the different characteristics of different video sequences, the gained quality value is corrected using a low quality version of the received video. The metric is verified using data from accurate subjective tests, and special care was taken to separate data used for calibration and verification. The proposed no-reference quality metric delivers a prediction accuracy of 0.86 when compared to subjective tests, and significantly outperforms PSNR as a quality predictor.
AB - A no-reference video quality metric for High-Definition video is introduced. This metric evaluates a set of simple features such as blocking or blurring, and combines those features into one parameter representing visual quality. While only comparably few base feature measurements are used, additional parameters are gained by evaluating changes for these measurements over time and using additional temporal pooling methods. To take into account the different characteristics of different video sequences, the gained quality value is corrected using a low quality version of the received video. The metric is verified using data from accurate subjective tests, and special care was taken to separate data used for calibration and verification. The proposed no-reference quality metric delivers a prediction accuracy of 0.86 when compared to subjective tests, and significantly outperforms PSNR as a quality predictor.
KW - AVC/H.264
KW - HDTV
KW - No-reference
KW - SVC
KW - Visual quality metric
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349197663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959791
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959791
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349197663
SN - 9781424423545
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 1145
EP - 1148
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Proceedings, ICASSP 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009
Y2 - 19 April 2009 through 24 April 2009
ER -