Video Quality Measurement
First Claim
1. A method of generating a measure of quality for a video signal representative of a plurality of frames, the video signal having:
- an original form;
an encoded form in which the video signal has been encoded using a compression algorithm utilising a variable quantiser step size such that the encoded signal has a quantiser step size parameter associable therewith; and
, a decoded form in which the encoded video signal has been at least in part reconverted to the original form, the method comprising;
a) generating a first quality measure which is a function of said quantiser step size parameter;
b) generating a second quality measure which is a function of the spatial complexity of at least part of the frames represented by the video signal in the decoded form; and
c) combining the first and second measures.
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Abstract
This application is concerned with a non-intrusive video quality measurement method, in particular where the video signal having: an original form; encoded form in which video signal has been encoded using a compression algorithm utilising a variable quantiser step size such that the encoded signal includes a quantiser step size parameter; and, a decoded form in which the encoded video signal has been at least in part reconverted to the original form. The method comprises the steps of: a) generating a first quality measure which is a function of said quantiser step size parameter; b) generating a second quality measure which is a function of the spatial complexity of the frames represented by the video signal in the decoded form; and, c) combining the first and second measures in order to obtain an estimate for the subjective visual quality of the decoded video.
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1. A method of generating a measure of quality for a video signal representative of a plurality of frames, the video signal having:
- an original form;
an encoded form in which the video signal has been encoded using a compression algorithm utilising a variable quantiser step size such that the encoded signal has a quantiser step size parameter associable therewith; and
, a decoded form in which the encoded video signal has been at least in part reconverted to the original form, the method comprising;a) generating a first quality measure which is a function of said quantiser step size parameter; b) generating a second quality measure which is a function of the spatial complexity of at least part of the frames represented by the video signal in the decoded form; and c) combining the first and second measures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- an original form;
- 13. A method as claimed in claims, wherein the frames each include a plurality of pixels, and for at least some of the pixels in a given frame, the spatial complexity is determined from a measure of the intensity gradient in a first direction at a given pixel, and the intensity gradient at that pixel in a second direction, the first and second directions being preferably orthogonal to one another.
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21. A apparatus for generating a measure of quality for a video signal representative of a plurality of frames, the video signal having:
- an original form;
an encoded form in which the video signal has been encoded using a compression algorithm utilising a variable quantiser step size such that the encoded signal has a quantiser step size parameter associable therewith; and
, a decoded form in which the encoded video signal has been at least in part reconverted to the original form, the apparatus comprising;a) means for generating a first quality measure which is a function of said quantiser step size parameter; b) means for generating a second quality measure which is a function of the spatial complexity of the frames represented by the video signal in the decoded form; and c) means for combining the first and second measures so as to generate the measure of quality for the video signal.
- an original form;
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