New spatiotemporal method for assessing video quality

• Main Authors: Boon, David Liang Bong, Loh, Woei-Tan
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2018
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21528/1/New%20spatiotemporal%20method%20for%20assessing%20video%20quality%20%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21528/; http://www.inderscience.com/dev/search/index.php?mainAction=search&action=record&rec_id=93077&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The existence of temporal effects and temporal distortions in a video differentiate the way it is assessed from an image. Temporal effects and distortions can enhance or depress the visibility of spatial effects in a video. Thus, the temporal part of videos plays a significant role in determining the video quality. In this study, a spatiotemporal video quality assessment (VQA) method is proposed due to the importance of temporal effects and distortions in assessing video quality. Instead of measuring the frame quality on a frame basis, the quality of several averaged frames is measured. The proposed spatiotemporal VQA method is significantly improved compared with image quality assessment (IQA) methods applied on a frame basis. When combined with IQA methods, the proposed spatiotemporal VQA method has comparable performance with state-of-the-art VQA methods. The computational complexity of the proposed temporal method is also lower when compared with current VQA methods.