No-reference quality assessment of H.264/AVC encoded video based on natural scene features

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8755, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Kongfeng ^a,b   Asari, Vijayan ^b   Saupe, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

Blockiness; DCT; H.264 AVC; Natural scenes; No reference; Video quality assessment

Indexed keywords

BLOCKINESS; DCT; H.264/AVC; NATURAL SCENES; NO REFERENCES; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; VIDEO RECORDING;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 84881158946     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2015594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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