Video Quality Metrics
Video quality metrics, reference implementation in python, with GPU optimizations and C versions as time permits.
VIF (sometimes called VIF-P or VIFP), Visual Information Fidelity: implemented
SSIM, Structural Similarity Metric: implemented
PSNR, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio: implemented
RECO, Relative Polar Edge Coherence: implemented
NIQE, Natural Image Quality Evaluator: implemented
MS-SSIM, MultiScale Structural Similarity Metric: planned
3SSIM, 3-Component Structural Similarity Metric: planned
VQUAD-HD: planned
VQM: maybe
UIQ, Universal Image Quality: maybe
MSSIM, Motion SSIM: maybe
Example
Run the demo/jpg_demo.py script, which will compress lena.png with JPEG at every quality setting 0-100, and plot all metric values vs quality setting and vs file size.
References
H. R. Sheikh and A. C. Bovik, “Image information and visual quality,” Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 430–444, 2006.
V. Baroncini, L. Capodiferro, E. D. Di Claudio, and G. Jacovitti, “The polar edge coherence: a quasi blind metric for video quality assessment,” EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow, pp. 564–568, 2009.
Z. Wang, E. P. Simoncelli, and A. C. Bovik, “Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment,” Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 1398–1402.
Mittal, Anish, Rajiv Soundararajan, and Alan C. Bovik. "Making a completely blind image quality analyzer." Signal Processing Letters, IEEE 20.3 (2013): 209-212.