OBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Digital video data, stored in video databases and distributed through communication networks, is subject to various kinds of distortions during acquisition, compression, processing, transmission, and reproduction. For example, lossy video compression techniques, which are almost always used to reduce the bandwidth needed to store or transmit video data, may degrade the quality during the quantization process. For another instance, the digital video bitstreams delivered over error-prone channels, such as wireless channels, may be received imperfectly due to the impairment occurred during transmission. Package-switched communication networks, such as the Internet, can cause loss or severe delay of received data packages, depending on the network conditions and the quality of services. All these transmission errors may result in distortions in the received video data. It is therefore imperative for a video service system to be able to realize and quantify the video quality degradations that occur in the system, so that it can maintain, control and possibly enhance the quality of the video data. An effective image and video quality metric is crucial for this purpose.

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