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Video Quality Assessment Using the Combined Full-Reference Approach

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Image Processing and Communications Challenges 2

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 84))

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In this paper the new combined video quality metric is proposed, which may be useful for the quality assessment of the compressed video files, especially transmitted using wireless channels. The proposed metric is the weighted combination of three state-of-the-art image quality metrics, which are well correlated with the subjective evaluations. A simple extension of those metrics for the video quality assessment is the averaging of their values for all video frames. Nevertheless, such approach may not lead to satisfactory results for all types of distortions. In this paper the typical distortions introduced during the wireless video transmission have been analyzed using the 160 files available as the LIVE Wireless Video Quality Assessment Database together with the results of subjective quality evaluation. Obtained results are promising and the proposed metric is superior to each of the analyzed ones in the aspect of the linear correlation with subjective scores.

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    Ryszard S. Choraś

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Okarma, K. (2010). Video Quality Assessment Using the Combined Full-Reference Approach. In: Choraś, R.S. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 2. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16295-4_5

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