Video Quality assessment Measure with a Neural Network

In this paper, we present the video quality measure estimation via a neural network. This latter predicts MOS (mean opinion score) by providing height parameters extracted from original and coded videos. The eight parameters that are used are: the average of DFT differences, the standard deviation of DFT differences, the average of DCT differences, the standard deviation of DCT differences, the variance of energy of color, the luminance Y, the chrominance U and the chrominance V. We chose Euclidean Distance to make comparison between the calculated and estimated output.

Authors:

• H. El Khattabi
• A. Tamtaoui
• D. Aboutajdine

Keywords:

• video
• neural network MLP
• subjective quality
• DCT
• DFT
• Retropropagation

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