Enhancements to the opinion model for video-telephony applications

Joskowicz, José - López Ardao, José Carlos

Resumen:

In this paper, we show how the proposed model in ITU-T Recommendation G.1070 “Opinion model for video-telephony applications” cannot model properly the perceptual video quality, especially in the low bit rate range, due to the great variation of MOS values depending on video content. In this work, we present different enhancements to the model, allowing a much better approximation to the perceptual MOS values, knowing only the subjective movement content in the video application, classified in “Low”, “Medium” or “High”. Studies were made for more than 1500 processed video clips, coded in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, in bit rate ranges from 50 kb/s to 12 Mb/s, in SD, VGA, CIF and QCIF display formats. Video clips subjective quality was estimated using one of the quality metrics standardized in ITU-T Recommendation J.144 and ITU-R Recommendation BT.1683.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2009
Video perceptual quality
Video codecs
Video signal processing
VoIP Network design
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/38669
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:In this paper, we show how the proposed model in ITU-T Recommendation G.1070 “Opinion model for video-telephony applications” cannot model properly the perceptual video quality, especially in the low bit rate range, due to the great variation of MOS values depending on video content. In this work, we present different enhancements to the model, allowing a much better approximation to the perceptual MOS values, knowing only the subjective movement content in the video application, classified in “Low”, “Medium” or “High”. Studies were made for more than 1500 processed video clips, coded in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, in bit rate ranges from 50 kb/s to 12 Mb/s, in SD, VGA, CIF and QCIF display formats. Video clips subjective quality was estimated using one of the quality metrics standardized in ITU-T Recommendation J.144 and ITU-R Recommendation BT.1683.