SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 108, Issue: 9, September 1999)
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VQEG Evaluation of Objective Methods of Video Quality Assessment
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- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE J
- Volume
- 108, No. 9, pp. 645–648
- Abstract
- This paper briefly discusses objective and subjective methods for video quality assessment by focusing on the current work plan and schedule of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). Subjective assessment methods have been used reliably for many years to evaluate video image quality, yet, some issues arise with subjective assessment including the cost of conducting the evaluations and the fact that these methods cannot easily be used to monitor video image quality in realtime. Traditional analog objective measurements, while still necessary, are not sufficient to measure the quality of digitally compressed video systems. Thus, there is a need to develop new objective methods utilizing the characteristics of the human visual system. While several new objective methods have been developed, there is no internationally standardized method. The VQEG is comprised of experts from various fields and organizations working on the evaluation and standardization of methods for video quality assessment. The first and current task of VQEG is the evaluation of objective model performance against subjective results for video quality in the bit rate range of 768 kbits/sec to 50 Mbits/sec.
- Publication Date
- 1999-09-01
- DOI
10.5594/J17594- ISSN
- Print:
0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J17594
- Author(s)
- Philip CorriveauCommunications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada K2H 8S2
bio
Philip Corriveau received a Bachelor of Science with Honors degree in psychology from Ottawa's Carleton University in 1990. He then joined what is now Industry Canada's Communications Research Centre and served as senior research analyst evaluating high-definition television systems at the Centre's Advance Television Evaluation Laboratory (ATEL) until 1995. He then moved to the Centre's Research Advanced Video Systems Group (RAVS) and is currently a researcher of subjective assessment. As a member of the ITU-R-10–11Q standards body and co-chair of the VQEG, Corriveau investigates subjective and objective methods of picture quality assessment.Arthur WebsterU.S. Dept. of Commerce, Boulder, CO 80303bio
Arthur Webster received his MSEE from the University of New Mexico in 1987. His work includes signal and image processing in radar, gyroscope testing, laser speckle imaging, and video. He has worked on video quality research since 1990 for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Institute for Telecommunications Sciences (ITS) at the laboratories in Boulder, CO. Webster currently participates in national and international standards activities pertaining to multimedia performance assessment and serves as co-chair of the ITU VQEG. - Copyright
- © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- 1. Rec. ITU-R BT.500–7, “Methodology for the Subjective Assessment of the Quality of Television Pictures,” ITU-R Recommendation 1974–1997. EXTERNAL
- 2. Rec. ITU-T P.910, “Subjective Video Quality Assessment Methods for Multimedia Applications,” ITU-T Recommendation 1996 . EXTERNAL
- 3. VQEG Meeting Report for the Gaithersburg Meeting. Can be accessed at anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.its.bldrdoc.gov/dist/ituvidq/vqeg2min.rtf . EXTERNAL
- 4. VQEG Subjective Test Plan. Can be accessed at anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.its.bldrdoc.gov/dist/ituvidq/subj_test_plan_final.rtf . EXTERNAL
- 5. VQEG Objective Test Plan. Can be accessed at anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.its.bldrdoc.gov/dist/ituvidq/obj_test_plan_final.rtf . EXTERNAL
- 6. Rec. ITU-R BT.601–5, “Studio Encoding Parameters of Digital Television for Standard 4:3 and Wide-Screen 16:9 Aspect Ratios,” ITU-R BT Recommendation 1997 . EXTERNAL
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