Quality Assessment of D10 and DV25 Video Codecs for Broadcasting Purposes

Author

Jovanov, Ljubomir ; Vansteenkiste, Ewout ; Philip, Wilfried ; Ermens, Wim ; Beckers, Tom

Author_Institution

Image Process. & Interpretation Group (IPI-IBBT), Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

7-8 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

92

Abstract

In this study we investigate the image quality of two video codec standards (D10 and DV25) for broadcasting purposes. Different video sequences from the Flemish public broadcasting institute (VRT) archive were produced in Betacam format and subsequently compressed following the two codecs. Then, two instrumental measures being the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and the Structural SImilarity Measure (SSIM) were used to assess the compressed video quality quantitatively. A psychovisual experiment based on the Multidimensional Scaling Framework (MDS) was set-up to assess the video quality qualitatively. Both approaches were compared and indicated unanonymously the preference for the D10 codec over the DV25 codec.

Keywords

data compression; digital video broadcasting; image sequences; standards; video codecs; video coding; Betacam format; D10 codec; DV25 codec; Flemish public broadcasting institute archive; broadcasting purposes; compressed video quality; image quality; multidimensional scaling framework; peak signal to noise ratio; quality assessment; structural similarity measure; video codec standards; video sequences; Broadcasting; Code standards; Image quality; Multimedia communication; Noise measurement; PSNR; Quality assessment; Video codecs; Video compression; Video sequences; D10; D25; multidimensional scaling; video quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Computer Based Systems, 2009. ECBS-EERC '09. First IEEE Eastern European Conference on the

Conference_Location

Novi Sad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4677-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3759-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECBS-EERC.2009.31

Filename

5290987