Efficient video quality assessment based on spacetime texture representation

  • Authors:
  • Peng Peng;Kevin Cannons;Ze-Nian Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Most existing video quality metrics measure temporal distortions based on optical-flow estimation, which typically has limited descriptive power of visual dynamics and low efficiency. This paper presents a unified and efficient framework to measure temporal distortions based on a spacetime texture representation of motion. We first propose an effective motion-tuning scheme to capture temporal distortions along motion trajectories by exploiting the distributive characteristic of the spacetime texture. Then we reuse the motion descriptors to build a self-information based spatiotemporal saliency model to guide the spatial pooling. At last, a comprehensive quality metric is developed by combining the temporal distortion measure with spatial distortion measure. Our method demonstrates high efficiency and excellent correlation with the human perception of video quality.