Freely Available Large-scale Video Quality Assessment Database in Full-HD Resolution with H.264 Coding

Mikolaj Leszczuk (1) , Lucjan Janowski (1) , Marcus Barkowsky (2)

1 AGH UST - AGH University of Science and Technology [Krakow, PL]
2 irccyn-ivc

Video databases often focus on a particular use case with a limited set of sequences. In this paper, a different type of database creation is proposed: an exhaustive number of test conditions will be continuously created and made freely available for objective and subjective evaluation. At the moment, the database comprises more than ten thousand JM/x264-encoded video sequences. An extensive study of the possible encoding parameter space led to a first subset selection of 1296 configura- tions. At the moment, only ten source sequences have been used, but extension to more than one hundred sequences is planned. Some Full-Reference (FR) and No-Reference (NR) metrics were selected and calculated. The resulting data will be freely available to the research community and possible exploitation areas are suggested.

Mots clés: HDTV; free content database; objective evalua- tion; video quality; video coding impairments

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Mikolaj Leszczuk, Lucjan Janowski, Marcus Barkowsky. Freely Available Large-scale Video Quality Assessment Database in Full-HD Resolution with H.264 Coding. IEEE Globecom 2013, Dec 2013, Atlanta, United States. pp.1-6. ⟨hal-00949941⟩