Perception-based video quality measurement system
First Claim
1. A quality measurement system for measuring an image quality of a destination video signal, comprising:
- source feature extraction means for extracting source image features from a source video signal corresponding to the destination video signal;
destination feature extraction means for extracting destination image features from the destination video signal;
source time referencing means for providing a source time reference for each one of the source image features;
destination time referencing means for providing destination time reference for each one of the destination image features;
quality parameter generation means for generating image quality parameters, indicative of the image quality of the destination video signal based on the source video signal, from at least one source and at least one destination image feature.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for objectively measuring the image quality of a destination video signal generates measurement parameters that are indicative of human image quality perceptions. Subjective human test panel results are generated for a variety of test scenes and types of image impairment. Objective test results are also generated by the apparatus of the present invention for the variety of test scenes and image impairments. A statistical analysis means statistically analyzes the subjective and objective test results to determine operation of the apparatus. Accordingly, when the apparatus extracts test frames from the actual source and destination video signals and compares them, image quality parameters are output by the apparatus which are based on human image quality perceptions.
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18 Claims
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1. A quality measurement system for measuring an image quality of a destination video signal, comprising:
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source feature extraction means for extracting source image features from a source video signal corresponding to the destination video signal; destination feature extraction means for extracting destination image features from the destination video signal; source time referencing means for providing a source time reference for each one of the source image features; destination time referencing means for providing destination time reference for each one of the destination image features; quality parameter generation means for generating image quality parameters, indicative of the image quality of the destination video signal based on the source video signal, from at least one source and at least one destination image feature. - View Dependent Claims (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18)
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- 3. The quality measurement system of claim wherein the source feature extraction means comprises at least one source statistics processor and the destination feature extraction means comprises at least one destination statistics processor, wherein the at least one source and the at least one destination statistics processors operate based on statistical analysis of objective and subjective image quality test data.
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12. A method for determining image quality of a destination video signal, comprising the steps of:
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determining subjective image quality test data; determining objective image quality test data; generating source image features from a source video signal; generating destination image features from the destination video signal; generating source time reference data associated with each one of said source image features and destination time reference data associated with each one of said destination image features; determining image quality parameters from the source and destination image features based on the subjective and objective image quality test data. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A video quality measurement system for measuring a change in quality between a source video signal which includes a plurality of source data frames, each source data frame including a plurality of source pixels, and a destination video signal which includes a corresponding plurality of destination data frames, each destination data frame including a plurality of destination pixels, the video quality measurement system comprising:
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first parameter extraction means for extracting a first plurality of parameters from the source video signal based on at least one objective measurement criteria; second parameter extraction means for extracting a second plurality of parameters from the destination video signal based on the at least one objective measurement criteria; alignment means coupled to the first and second parameter extraction means for performing time alignment between corresponding parameters of the first and second plurality of parameters; combining means for combining the time aligned corresponding parameters of the first and second plurality of parameters to generate at least one quality indication; the combining means combining the time aligned corresponding parameters of the first and second plurality of parameters according to a plurality of learned parameters, the plurality of learned parameters having been determined from a joint statistical analysis of a plurality of subjective viewer judgments. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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