SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 108, Issue: 1, January 1999)
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Practical Application of Objective Picture Quality Measurements
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE J
- Volume
- 108, No. 1, pp. 10–19
- Abstract
- Increasing use of compressed video methods in the generation and distribution of television programs has led to a requirement for objective picture quality measurement methods. Although traditional, indirect, signal quality measurements are still required for evaluation of the uncompressed part of the system, they are not adequate for evaluation of the compression-decompression process. Subjective testing methods are complex, time consuming, and only applicable for development purposes. They do not lend themselves to operational monitoring, production line testing, or trouble shooting. Considering the variety of video compression methods and growing ease of data interconnection, measurement of the resulting video quality must not be limited to a particular compression system. This paper describes the feature-extraction and picture-differencing objective picture quality measurement methods with reference to ongoing research developments. Emphasis is placed on application of the human visual system model to picture-differencing as the preferred objective method. System requirements for application of the model are described in conjunction with a practical implementation of a measurement set.
- Publication Date
- 1999-01-01
- DOI
10.5594/J04353- ISSN
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0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J04353
- Author(s)
- David K. Fibushconsultant for Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077. An unedited version of this paper appears in Film and Video Origination in the Era of DTV Broadcasting and Distribution , SMPTE, 1997
bio
David Fibush has been involved in various aspects of television engineering for more than 30 years. At Ampex for 23 years, he was a major contributor to standardization of the SMPTE Type C format and development of television recorders for various tape formats. For six years at Tektronix, Fibush was involved in the development of test signal generators, video frame synchronizers, and planning of compressed television testing products. Presently he is a consultant to Tektronix in the area of MPEG-2 transport stream testing and video quality testing for compressed television systems. — Fibush is a Fellow of the SMPTE and is Chairman of the Committee on Video Compression Technology. He is an active member of the IEEE Quality Experts Group, and the ANSI Working Group on Multimedia Communications Coding and Performance. — Fibush has written numerous technical articles on a range of television technology topics and received several SMPTE awards for the most outstanding paper originally published in the Journal. In 1995 he received the premier medal award of the Society, the SMPTE Progress Medal which recognizes outstanding technical contributions to the progress of engineering phases of the motion picture and/or television industries. —Fibush graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BSEE in 1962 and an MSEE in 1965. - Copyright
- © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Correlation between Objective and Subjective Measurements for Video Compressed Systems [Active]
- 1. ITU-R BT.500, “Methodology for the Subjective Assessment of the Quality of Television Pictures.” . EXTERNAL
- 2. ANSI Standard T1.801.03-1996, “Digital Transport of One-Way Video Signals. Parameters for Objective Performance Assessment.” . EXTERNAL
- 3. Cermak G. Wolf S. , “Objective and Subjective Measures of MPEG Video Quality.” ANSI committee document T1A1.5/96-121. 1996 . EXTERNAL
- 5. Yuyama I. , “Objective Measurement of Picture Quality for the Digital Television Broadcasting,” Proceedings of the Made to Measure ′96 Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, Nov. 1996 . EXTERNAL
- 6. Beerends J. G. , “Objective Measurement of Picture Quality,” ITU-T committee document Com7-12-E, Feb. 1997 . EXTERNAL
- 7. Dalton C. , “Why is Objective Evaluation Needed for Compressed Digital Video,” Proceedings of the Made to Measure ′96 Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, Nov. 1996 . EXTERNAL
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