Advanced video quality assessment of leading codecs: AV1, VVC, and their draft successor designs

P. Topiwala; W. Dai

doi:10.1117/12.2637916

3 October 2022 Advanced video quality assessment of leading codecs: AV1, VVC, and their draft successor designs

P. Topiwala, W. Dai

Proceedings Volume 12226, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV; 122260C (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2637916
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

AV1 and VVC are today top performing video codecs, with VVC holding an edge (in our previous estimates, about 10- 12%). Moreover, both organizations are busy working on advancements of their codecs, respectively. Current work within the ISO/IEC/ITU committees shows updates with improvements of about 15% over VVC on common test data, while the Alliance for Open Media, the source of AV1, is already working on AV2 (called AVM), with an as yet unknown performance gain (but targeting about 20%) over AV1. We compare the performance of these codecs objectively on well-known 1080p test data, restricting to Standard Dynamic Range in this study (we treat HDR in an accompanying paper), not only using PSNR, but more advanced video quality assessment tools such as SSIM, VMAF, and FastVDO’s quality measure, FVQ. We highlight the similarities and difference between the well-worn PSNR, and the more advanced approaches, to develop a nominal performance comparison among these leading video codecs. In this context, we use full reference video quality assessment. We observe that the more advanced metrics may be picking up on differences in quality that PSNR misses.

Conference Presentation

Citation Download Citation

P. Topiwala and W. Dai "Advanced video quality assessment of leading codecs: AV1, VVC, and their draft successor designs", Proc. SPIE 12226, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV, 122260C (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2637916

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available