Rule-based no-reference video quality evaluation using additionally coded videos

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 294-303

  Oelbaum, Tobias ^a   Keimel, Christian ^a   Diepold, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AVC H.264; No reference quality metric; Visual quality

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO RECORDING;

AVC/H.264; BLOCKINESS; BLOCKING EFFECTS; CROSS VALIDATIONS; GENERAL MODELS; LOW DATA RATES; LOW QUALITIES; NO-REFERENCE QUALITY METRIC; OVERALL QUALITIES; PEAK-SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; PEARSON CORRELATIONS; RULE-BASED; SIMPLE RULES; SPATIAL ACTIVITIES; SUBJECTIVE QUALITIES; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; VIDEO QUALITIES; VIDEO QUALITY METRIC; VIDEO SEQUENCES; VISUAL QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 63649148416     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2015473     Document Type: Article

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