The accuracy of PSNR in predicting video quality for different video scenes and frame rates |
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Authors: | Quan Huynh-Thu Mohammed Ghanbari |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Kneza Trpimira 2B, 31000 Osijek, Croatia |
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Abstract: | Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) is widely used as a video quality metric or performance indicator. Some studies have indicated
that it correlates poorly with subjective quality, whilst others have used it on the basis that it provides a good correlation
with subjective data. Existing literature seems to provide conflicting evidence of the accuracy of PSNR as a video quality
metric. Based on experimental results, we explain a scenario where PSNR provides a reliable indication of the variation of
subjective video quality and scenarios where PSNR is not a reliable video quality metric. We show that PSNR follows a monotonic
relationship with subjective quality in the case of full frame rate encoding when the video content and codec are fixed. We
provide evidence that PSNR becomes an unreliable and inaccurate quality metric when several videos with different content
are jointly assessed. Furthermore, PSNR is inaccurate in measuring video quality of a video content encoded at different frame
rates because it is not capable of assessing the perceptual trade-off between the spatial and temporal qualities. Finally,
where PSNR is not a reliable video quality metric across different video contents and frame rates, we show that a perceptual
video model recently approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) provides quality predictions highly correlating
with subjective scores even if different video scenes coded at different frame rates are considered in the test set. |
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