No-Reference Video Quality Assessment Using Codec Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1637-1650

  Søgaard, Jacob ^a   Forchhammer, Søren ^a   Korhonen, Jari ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC); no reference (NR); peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) estimation; pixel based (PB); video codec analysis; video quality assessment (VQA)

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PIXELS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTIZATION (SIGNAL); VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

H.264/ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; NO REFERENCES; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO CODECS; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENTS (VQA);

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84939489965     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2397207     Document Type: Article

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