A block artifact distortion measure for no reference video quality evaluation

In This paper, we propose a new perceptually significant video quality metric to estimate the effect of block coding for standards H.264 AVC and MPEG2. Our method operates in the spatial domain and doesn´t require a high complexity of computation. We compare it with Suthaharan´s and MSU´s techniques by using “LIVE” database. Results indicate that the proposed method outperforms Suthaharan´s technique. They also indicate that our method is more effective than MSU´s technique for the H.264 AVC and MPEG2 standard with the Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient.