Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1

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Autori principali: Vibhoothi, Katsenou, Angeliki, Pitié, François, Domijan, Katarina, Kokaram, Anil
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author Vibhoothi
Katsenou, Angeliki
Pitié, François
Domijan, Katarina
Kokaram, Anil
author_facet Vibhoothi
Katsenou, Angeliki
Pitié, François
Domijan, Katarina
Kokaram, Anil
contents Since 2015 video dimensionality has expanded to higher spatial and temporal resolutions and a wider colour gamut. This High Dynamic Range (HDR) content has gained traction in the consumer space as it delivers an enhanced quality of experience. At the same time, the complexity of codecs is growing. This has driven the development of tools for content-adaptive optimisation that achieve optimal rate-distortion performance for HDR video at 4K resolution. While improvements of just a few percentage points in BD-Rate (1-5\%) are significant for the streaming media industry, the impact on subjective quality has been less studied especially for HDR/AV1. In this paper, we conduct a subjective quality assessment (42 subjects) of 4K HDR content with a per-clip optimisation strategy. We correlate these subjective scores with existing popular objective metrics used in standard development and show that some perceptual metrics correlate surprisingly well even though they are not tuned for HDR. We find that the DSQCS protocol is too insensitive to categorically compare the methods but the data allows us to make recommendations about the use of experts vs non-experts in HDR studies, and explain the subjective impact of film grain in HDR content under compression.
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spellingShingle Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1
Vibhoothi
Katsenou, Angeliki
Pitié, François
Domijan, Katarina
Kokaram, Anil
Image and Video Processing
Human-Computer Interaction
Multimedia
Since 2015 video dimensionality has expanded to higher spatial and temporal resolutions and a wider colour gamut. This High Dynamic Range (HDR) content has gained traction in the consumer space as it delivers an enhanced quality of experience. At the same time, the complexity of codecs is growing. This has driven the development of tools for content-adaptive optimisation that achieve optimal rate-distortion performance for HDR video at 4K resolution. While improvements of just a few percentage points in BD-Rate (1-5\%) are significant for the streaming media industry, the impact on subjective quality has been less studied especially for HDR/AV1. In this paper, we conduct a subjective quality assessment (42 subjects) of 4K HDR content with a per-clip optimisation strategy. We correlate these subjective scores with existing popular objective metrics used in standard development and show that some perceptual metrics correlate surprisingly well even though they are not tuned for HDR. We find that the DSQCS protocol is too insensitive to categorically compare the methods but the data allows us to make recommendations about the use of experts vs non-experts in HDR studies, and explain the subjective impact of film grain in HDR content under compression.
title Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1
topic Image and Video Processing
Human-Computer Interaction
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14432