IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Aug. 2002

Full-Reference Video Quality Assessment Considering Structural Distortion and No-Reference Quality Evaluation of MPEG Video

Ligang Lu¹, Zhou Wang², Alan C. Bovik² and Jack Kouloheris¹

¹Multimedia Technologies, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

²Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1084

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Abstract: There has been an increasing need recently to develop objective quality measurement techniques that can predict perceived video quality automatically. This paper introduces two video quality assessment models. The first one requires the original video as a reference and is a structural distortion measurement based approach, which is different from traditional error sensitivity based methods. Experiments on the video quality experts group (VQEG) test data set show that the new quality measure has higher correlation with subjective quality evaluation than the proposed methods in VQEG's Phase I tests for full-reference video quality assessment. The second model is designed for quality estimation of compressed MPEG video stream without referring to the original video sequence. Preliminary experimental results show that it correlates well with our full-reference quality assessment model.