Picture quality assessment using spatial location with or without subsampling

摘要

A picture quality assessment method based upon spatial location with or without subsampling within the picture divides the video picture into a plurality of arbitrarily sized, geometric segments. A segment weighting map is generated that provides one value for "safe picture" segments of the video picture and another value for the other segments. Optionally one or more of the segments may be subsampled to reduce processing time for realtime applications. The video picture on a segment basis is compared with a corresponding test video picture using a picture quality assessment algorithm to generate a quality error value for each segment. The quality error values are weighted according to the segment weighting map, and on an error display the weighted quality error values are displayed.