Video Quality Metrics
Mylène C. Q. Farias · InTech eBooks · 2010
In this chapter, we introduced several aspects of video quality. We described the anatomy of the Human Visual System (HVS), discussing a number of phenomena of visual perception that are of particular relevance to video quality. We briefly introduced the main characteristics of modern digital video systems, focusing on the errors (artifacts) commonly present in digital video applications. We described both objective and subjective methods for assessing video quality. For the subjective methods, we discussed the most common techniques standardized by ITU. We also discussed the main ideas used in the design of objective metric algorithms, listing a