Learning Quality from Complexity and Structure: A Feature-Fused XGBoost Model for Video Quality Assessment

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Auteurs principaux: Premkumar, Amritha, Rajendran, Prajit T, Menon, Vignesh V
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author Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Menon, Vignesh V
author_facet Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Menon, Vignesh V
contents This paper presents a novel approach for reduced-reference video quality assessment (VQA), developed as part of the recent VQA Grand Challenge. Our method leverages low-level complexity and structural information from reference and test videos to predict perceptual quality scores. Specifically, we extract spatio-temporal features using Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) and compute SSIM values from the test video to capture both texture and structural characteristics. These features are aggregated through temporal pooling, and residual features are calculated by comparing the original and distorted feature sets. The combined features are used to train an XGBoost regression model that estimates the overall video quality. The pipeline is fully automated, interpretable, and highly scalable, requiring no deep neural networks or GPU inference. Experimental results on the challenge dataset demonstrate that our proposed method achieves competitive correlation with subjective quality scores while maintaining a low computational footprint. The model's lightweight design and strong generalization performance suit real-time streaming quality monitoring and adaptive encoding scenarios.
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spellingShingle Learning Quality from Complexity and Structure: A Feature-Fused XGBoost Model for Video Quality Assessment
Premkumar, Amritha
Rajendran, Prajit T
Menon, Vignesh V
Multimedia
This paper presents a novel approach for reduced-reference video quality assessment (VQA), developed as part of the recent VQA Grand Challenge. Our method leverages low-level complexity and structural information from reference and test videos to predict perceptual quality scores. Specifically, we extract spatio-temporal features using Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) and compute SSIM values from the test video to capture both texture and structural characteristics. These features are aggregated through temporal pooling, and residual features are calculated by comparing the original and distorted feature sets. The combined features are used to train an XGBoost regression model that estimates the overall video quality. The pipeline is fully automated, interpretable, and highly scalable, requiring no deep neural networks or GPU inference. Experimental results on the challenge dataset demonstrate that our proposed method achieves competitive correlation with subjective quality scores while maintaining a low computational footprint. The model's lightweight design and strong generalization performance suit real-time streaming quality monitoring and adaptive encoding scenarios.
title Learning Quality from Complexity and Structure: A Feature-Fused XGBoost Model for Video Quality Assessment
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09795