Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding

ISBN: 9780824727772 出版年：2017 页码：637 CRC Press

PICTURE CODING AND HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS Digital Picture Compression and Coding Structure . Introduction to Digital Picture Coding . Characteristics of Picture Data . Compression and Coding Techniques . Picture Quantization . Rate-Distortion Theory . Human Visual Systems . Digital Picture Coding Standards and Systems . Summary Fundamentals of Human Vision and Vision Modeling . Introduction . A Brief Overview of the Visual System . Color Vision . Luminance and the Perception of Light Intensity . Spatial Vision and Contrast Sensitivity . Temporal Vision and Motion . Visual Modeling . Conclusions Coding Artifacts and Visual Distortions . Introduction . Blocking Effect . Basis Image Effect . Blurring . Color Bleeding . Staircase Effect . Ringing . Mosaic Patterns . False Contouring . False Edges . MC Mismatch . Mosquito Effect . Stationary Area Fluctuations . Chrominance Mismatch . Video Scaling and Field Rate Conversion . Deinterlacing . Summary PICTURE QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND METRICS Video Quality Testing . Introduction . Subjective Assessment Methodologies . Selection of Test Materials . Selection of Participants-Subjects . Experimental Design . International Test Methods . Objective Assessment Methods . Summary Perceptual Video Quality Metrics-A Review . Introduction . Quality Factors . Metric Classification . Pixel-Based Metrics . The Psychophysical Approach . The Engineering Approach . Metric Comparisons . Conclusions and Perspectives Philosophy of Picture Quality Scale . Objective Picture Quality Scale for Image Coding . Application of PQS to a Variety of Electronic Images . Various Categories of Image Systems . Study at ITU . Conclusion Structural Similarity Based Image Quality Assessment . Structural Similarity Based Image Quality . The Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) Index . Image Quality Assessment Based on the SSIM Index . Discussions Vision Model Based Digital Video Impairment Metrics . Introduction . Vision Modeling for Impairment Measurement . Perceptual Blocking Distortion Metric . Perceptual Ringing Distortion Measure . Conclusion Computational Models for Just-Noticeable Difference . Introduction . JND with DCT Subbands . JND with Pixels . JND Model Evaluation . Conclusions No-Reference Quality Metric for Degraded and Enhanced Video . Introduction . State-of-the-Art for No-Reference Metrics . Quality Metric Components and Design . No-Reference Overall Quality Metric . Performance of the Quality Metric . Conclusions and Future Research Video Quality Experts Group . Formation . Goals . Phase I . Phase II . Continuing Work and Directions . Summary PERCEPTUAL CODING AND PROCESSING OF DIGITAL PICTURES HVS Based Perceptual Video Encoders . Introduction . Noise Visibility and Visual Masking . Architectures for Perceptual Based Coding . Standards-Specific Features . Salience/Maskability Pre-Processing . Application to Multi-Channel Encoding Perceptual Image Coding . Introduction . A Perceptual Distortion Metric Based Image Coder . Model Calibration . Performance Evaluation . Perceptual Lossless Coder . Summary Foveated Image and Video Coding . Foveated Human Vision and Foveated Image Processing . Foveation Methods . Scalable Foveated Image and Video Coding . Discussions Artifact Reduction by Post-Processing in Image Compression . Introduction . Image Compression and Coding Artifacts . Reduction of Blocking Artifacts . Reduction of Ringing Artifacts . Summary Reduction of Color Bleeding in DCT Block-Coded Video . Introduction . Detailed Analysis of the Color Bleeding Phenomenon . Description of the Post-Processor . Experimental Results-Concluding Remarks Error Resilience for Video Coding Service . Introduction to Error Resilient Coding Techniques . Error Resilient Coding Methods Compatible with MPEG-2 . Methods for Concealment of Cell Loss . Experimental Procedure . Experimental Results . Conclusions Critical Issues and Challenges . Picture Coding Structures . Vision Modeling Issues . Spatio-Temporal Masking in Video Coding . Picture Quality Assessment . Challenges in Perceptual Coder Design . Codec System Design Optimization . Summary Appendix: VQM Performance Metrics . Metrics Relating to Model Prediction Accuracy . Metrics Relating to Prediction Monotonicity of a Model . Metrics Relating to Prediction Consistency . MATLAB(R) Source Code . Supplementary Analyses INDEX