Modeling subjectively perceived annoyance of H.264/AVC video as a function of perceived artifact strength

  • Authors:

  • Tobias Wolff;Hsin-Han Ho;John M. Foley;Sanjit K. Mitra

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the subjective perception of video coding artifacts in H.264/AVC encoded and decoded video. Our objective is to model the perceived annoyance of such low bit rate video sequences as a function of perceived artifact strength. We introduce a new method for determining this function and apply it to the data from two psychophysical experiments. Both experiments produced numerical judgments of the subjectively perceived annoyance of artifact combinations and the perceived strength of the respective coding artifacts. Our method produces a discrete multi-dimensional representation of the relationships in the data from which the function relating annoyance to artifact strength is derived. The method is applied to the data of the first experiment and the resulting function is shown to describe the data from the second experiment as well.