Single-ended objective quality assessment of DTV

Vittorio Baroncini; A. Pierotti

doi:10.1117/12.371208

22 November 1999 Single-ended objective quality assessment of DTV

Vittorio Baroncini, A. Pierotti

Proceedings Volume 3845, Multimedia Systems and Applications II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.371208
Event: Photonics East '99, 1999, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The objective measurement of visual quality of DTV imagery may be performed in two basic ways: 'double-ended' and 'single-ended' methods. A 'single-ended' method is generally used to assess the visual quality of a Digital TV signal when the original signal is not available (e.g. a studio receiving many contributions on digital links). This paper proposes a new 'single-ended' system to objectively assess the visual quality of a DTV based on a method for which new technique of detection of the impairments and a temporal analysis of the quality level have been applied. This method tries to go beyond the limit of a bare 8 X 8 block structure and to look for the visibility of an impairment (here called 'snow flakes') due to a temporal fluctuation of visual quality, typical of the MPEG GOP structure. Experimental results show a good behavior when low bit rate (1 Mbps to 4 Mbps) coded video signal are processed. Other experimental results at higher bit rate (5 Mbps to 9 Mbps) are also proposed, for which the results are more dependent on the image content.

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Vittorio Baroncini and A. Pierotti "Single-ended objective quality assessment of DTV", Proc. SPIE 3845, Multimedia Systems and Applications II, (22 November 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.371208

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