Video quality assessment (VQA) is a crucial task in the development of video compression standards, as it directly impacts the viewer experience. This paper presents the results of the Compressed Video Quality Assessment challenge, held in conjunction with the Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop at ECCV 2024. The challenge aimed to evaluate the performance of VQA methods on a diverse dataset of 459 videos, encoded with 14 codecs of various compression standards (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AV1, and VVC/H.266) and containing a comprehensive collection of compression artifacts. To measure the methods performance, we employed traditional correlation coefficients between their predictions and subjective scores, which were collected via large-scale crowdsourced pairwise human comparisons. For training purposes, participants were provided with the Compressed Video Quality Assessment Dataset (CVQAD), a previously developed dataset of 1022 videos. Up to 30 participating teams registered for the challenge, while we report the results of 6 teams, which submitted valid final solutions and code for reproducing the results. Moreover, we calculated and present the performance of state-of-the-art VQA methods on the developed dataset, providing a comprehensive benchmark for future research. The dataset, results, and online leaderboard are publicly available at https://challenges.videoprocessing.ai/challenges/compressedvideo-quality-assessment.html.
@article{arxiv.2408.11982,
title = {AIM 2024 Challenge on Compressed Video Quality Assessment: Methods and Results},
author = {Maksim Smirnov and Aleksandr Gushchin and Anastasia Antsiferova and Dmitry Vatolin and Radu Timofte and Ziheng Jia and Zicheng Zhang and Wei Sun and Jiaying Qian and Yuqin Cao and Yinan Sun and Yuxin Zhu and Xiongkuo Min and Guangtao Zhai and Kanjar De and Qing Luo and Ao-Xiang Zhang and Peng Zhang and Haibo Lei and Linyan Jiang and Yaqing Li and Wenhui Meng and Zhenzhong Chen and Zhengxue Cheng and Jiahao Xiao and Jun Xu and Chenlong He and Qi Zheng and Ruoxi Zhu and Min Li and Yibo Fan and Zhengzhong Tu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11982},
year = {2024}
}