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A large-scale video quality dataset called the VideoSet has been constructed recently to measure human subjective experience of H.264 coded video in terms of the just-noticeable-difference (JND). It measures the first three JND points of…
The human eye cannot perceive small pixel changes in images or videos until a certain threshold of distortion. In the context of video compression, Just Noticeable Difference (JND) is the smallest distortion level from which the human eye…
The video quality assessment (VQA) technology has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to an increasing demand of video streaming services. Existing VQA methods are designed to predict video quality in terms of the mean opinion…
The satisfied user ratio (SUR) curve for a lossy image compression scheme, e.g., JPEG, characterizes the complementary cumulative distribution function of the just noticeable difference (JND), the smallest distortion level that can be…
Evaluating perceived video quality is essential for ensuring high Quality of Experience (QoE) in modern streaming applications. While existing subjective datasets and Video Quality Metrics (VQMs) cover a broad quality range, many practical…
A new methodology to measure coded image/video quality using the just-noticeable-difference (JND) idea was proposed. Several small JND-based image/video quality datasets were released by the Media Communications Lab at the University of…
Nowadays, high-quality images are pursued by both humans for better viewing experience and by machines for more accurate visual analysis. However, images are usually compressed before being consumed, decreasing their quality. It is…
Based on the Just-Noticeable-Difference (JND) criterion, a subjective video quality assessment (VQA) dataset, called the VideoSet, was constructed recently. In this work, we propose a JND-based VQA model using a probabilistic framework to…
360$^\circ$ videos have received widespread attention due to its realistic and immersive experiences for users. To date, how to accurately model the user perceptions on 360$^\circ$ display is still a challenging issue. In this paper, we…
Recently, learned image compression schemes have achieved remarkable improvements in image fidelity (e.g., PSNR and MS-SSIM) compared to conventional hybrid image coding ones due to their high-efficiency non-linear transform, end-to-end…
Just Noticeable Difference (JND) model developed based on Human Vision System (HVS) through subjective studies is valuable for many multimedia use cases. In the streaming industries, it is commonly applied to reach a good balance between…
Recently, with the development of deep learning, a number of Just Noticeable Difference (JND) datasets have been built for JND modeling. However, all the existing JND datasets only label the JND points based on the level of compression…
Subjective video quality assessment is crucial for optimizing streaming and compression, yet traditional protocols face limitations in capturing nuanced perceptual differences and ensuring reliable user input. We propose an integrated…
Just noticeable distortion (JND), representing the threshold of distortion in an image that is minimally perceptible to the human visual system (HVS), is crucial for image compression algorithms to achieve a trade-off between transmission…
Image prefiltering with just noticeable distortion (JND) improves coding efficiency in a visual lossless way by filtering the perceptually redundant information prior to compression. However, real JND cannot be well modeled with inaccurate…
Encoding textural content remains a challenge for current standardised video codecs. It is therefore beneficial to understand video textures in terms of both their spatio-temporal characteristics and their encoding statistics in order to…
As an important perceptual characteristic of the Human Visual System (HVS), the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) has been studied for decades with image and video processing (e.g., perceptual visual signal compression). However, there is…
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) accounts for the minimum distortion at which humans can perceive a difference between a pristine stimulus and its distorted version. The JND concept has been widely applied in visual signal processing…
High-quality face images are required to guarantee the stability and reliability of automatic face recognition (FR) systems in surveillance and security scenarios. However, a massive amount of face data is usually compressed before being…
In the mobile communication field, some of the video applications boosted the interest of robust methods for video quality assessment. Out of all existing methods, We Preferred, No Reference Video Quality Assessment is the one which is most…