METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALCULATING DISTORTION OF A VIDEO BEING AFFECTED BY COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS AND CHANNEL ARTIFACTS

摘要

In video quality control and estimation, the joint evaluation of compression artifacts and channel artifacts is a problem. The invention considers the joint perception of both a compression artifact level Dm(V) and a channel artifact level Dh(V) in a method for calculating overall distortion in a video being affected by compression artifacts and channel artifacts. The method comprises a step of adding a compression artifact level Dm(V) and a summand S that is derived from log (Dh(V)) multiplied with a factor that decreases with increasing compression artifact level Dm, such as D(V)=Dm(V)+c·(K−Dm(V))·log(Dh(V)). The result obtained is a measure for the overall distortion.