A novel video quality metric for low bit-rate video considering both coding and packet-loss artifacts

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-293

  Liu, Tao ^a   Wang, Yao ^a   Boyce, Jill M ^b   Yang, Hua ^b   Wu, Zhenyu ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Thomson Corporate Research   (United States)

Author keywords

H264 AVC; Packet loss; Perceptual video quality

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIT RATES; BIT-RATE VIDEOS; COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS; ERROR PROPAGATION; H264/AVC; LOSSY COMPRESSIONS; OVERALL QUALITIES; PEAK-SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITIES; PERCEPTUAL VIDEO QUALITY; QUALITY DEGRADATIONS; SUBJECTIVE RATINGS; VIDEO CLIPS; VIDEO QUALITY METRIC;

PACKET LOSS;

EID: 63649100799     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2015069     Document Type: Article

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