Digital Video Quality: Vision Models and Metrics

Acknowledgements.

Acronyms.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Motivation.

1.2 Outline.

2 Vision.

2.1 Eye.

2.2 Retina.

2.3 Visual Pathways.

2.4 Sensitivity to Light.

2.5 Color Perception.

2.6 Masking and Adaptation.

2.7 Multi-channel Organization.

2.8 Summary.

3 Video Quality.

3.1 Video Coding and Compression.

3.2 Artifacts.

3.3 Visual Quality.

3.4 Quality Metrics.

3.5 Metric Evaluation.

3.6 Summary.

4 Models and Metrics.

4.1 Isotropic Contrast.

4.2 Perceptual Distortion Metric.

4.3 Summary.

5 Metric Evaluation.

5.1 Still Images.

5.2 Video.

5.3 Component Analysis.

5.4 Summary.

6 Metric Extensions.

6.1 Blocking Artifacts.

6.2 Object Segmentation.

6.3 Image Appeal.

6.4 Summary.

7 Closing Remarks.

7.1 Summary.

7.2 Perspectives.

Appendix: Color Space Conversions.

References.

Index.