Towards the Standardization of Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment: An Application for Objective Algorithms

Authors

  • José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG)
  • Carlos Danilo Miranda Regis Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB)
  • Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications (Iecom)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.233

Keywords:

Stereoscopic Video, Video Quality Assessment, Objective Algorithms

Abstract

This article describes a Qt-based C++ application for full-reference stereoscopic video quality assessment, which is platform independent and provides a friendly graphical user interface. The stereoscopic video signals used in the application are based on a two-view model, such as the H.264/AVC standard in the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) profile. In addition, several spatial resolutions are available. The application provides objective video quality algorithms, such as PSNR, SSIM, and PW-SSIM and also incorporates a recently published technique for stereoscopic video quality assessment called Disparity Weighting (DW), which comprises the following algorithms: DPSNR, DSSIM and DPW-SSIM. Numerical results corresponding to the performance of the objective measurements, acquired using the proposed application, are presented. The application aims to contribute to the standardization and development of objective algorithms for stereoscopic content. As an open-source tool to be used by the academia and the industry, the application is used to evaluate impairments in stereoscopic video signals, caused by processing, compression and transmission techniques.

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Author Biographies

José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG)

J. Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso was born in Campina Grande, Brazil in 1992. He is a senior-year student of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. Currently, he was awarded with a scholarship sponsored by the Brazilian Government to pursue his studies in the US. Since his first year in college, he has been engaged with research projects related to image and video processing. Such works were published in reputed conferences such as IEEE BMSB'13, IEEE BMSB'14, IEEE SSIAI'14, and ITU Kaleidoscope 2014. The paper published in the ITU Kaleidoscope 2014 was nominated for the Best Paper Awarded (one of the best six papers) and, in that occasion, he was awarded with an Young Author Recognition by ITU. He is a student member of the IEEE, Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT), and Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications (Iecom).

Carlos Danilo Miranda Regis, Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB)

C. Danilo Miranda Regis was born in Guarabira, Brazil. He received his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, in 2007, his Masters Degree, in 2009, and his Doctor Degree, in 2013, both in Electrical Engineering, from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. He is with the Iecom Executive Staff of the Journal of Communication and Information Systems (JCIS), since 2006. Since 2009, he is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraba (IFPB), Brazil. His current interests include video quality metrics, video processing, multimedia, Digital TV, mobile TV, video transmission and biomedical engineering.

Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications (Iecom)

M. Sampaio de Alencar was born in Serrita, Brazil in 1957. He received his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, 1980, his Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, from Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil, 1988 and his Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada, 1994. He is Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil, founder and President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications (Iecom). He published over 350 engineering and scientific papers and 16 books. He is Emeritus Member of the SBrT. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a columnist for the traditional Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Commercio. He is Vice-President External Relations of SBrT.

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Published

2015-03-10

How to Cite

de Miranda Cardoso, J. V. ., Danilo Miranda Regis, C. ., & Sampaio de Alencar, M. . (2015). Towards the Standardization of Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment: An Application for Objective Algorithms. Journal of ICT Standardization, 2(3), 247–268. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.233

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2015: Vol 2 Iss 3

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