SAMVIQ-A New EBU Methodology for Video Quality ations in Multimedia

摘要

This paper proposes a novel methodology, SAMVIQ, to be used primarily for formal subjec tive evaluations of video contents in the multimedia domain. SAMVIQ stands for Subjective Assessment Methodology for Video Quality. First, the conventional methods used to assess the quality of moving pictures in television are briefly described. Then, by pointing out some principal differences between conventional tele vision and multimedia video, the details of the SAMVIQ methodology, which has been designed for the multimedia environments, are introduced. The main advantages of SAMVIQ are highlighted and some examples of how it can be efficiently used for the evaluation of video codecs in both clear and error-prone environments are shown.