LIVE Video Quality Challenge (VQC) Database
Description
The great variations of videographic skills in videography, camera designs, compression and processing protocols, communication and bandwidth environments, and displays leads to an enormous variety of video impairments. Current no-reference (NR) video quality models are unable to handle this diversity of distortions. This is true in part because available video quality assessment databases contain very limited content, fixed resolutions, were captured using a small number of camera devices by a few videographers and have been subjected to a modest number of distortions. As such, these databases fail to adequately represent real world videos, which contain very different kinds of content obtained under highly diverse imaging conditions and are subject to authentic, complex and often commingled distortions that are difficult or impossible to simulate. As a result, NR video quality predictors tested on real-world video data often perform poorly. Towards advancing NR video quality prediction, we have constructed a large-scale video quality assessment database containing 585 videos of unique content , captured using 101 different devices (43 device models) by 80 different users with wide ranges of levels of complex, authentic distortions. We collected a large number of subjective video quality scores via crowdsourcing. A total of 4776 unique participants took part in the study, yielding more than 205000 opinion scores , resulting in an average of 240 recorded human opinions per video . This study is the largest video quality assessment study ever conducted along several key dimensions: number of unique contents, capture devices, distortion types and combinations of distortions, study participants, and recorded subjective scores.
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We are making the LIVE Video Quality Challenge Database available to the research community free of charge. If you use this database in your research, we kindly ask that you reference our papers listed below:
- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "Large-Scale Study of Perceptual Video Quality,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 612-627, February 2019.
- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "Large Scale Subjective Video Quality Study,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Athens, Greece, October 2018.
- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "LIVE Video Quality Challenge Database", Online: http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/LIVEVQC/index.html, 2018.
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- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "Large-Scale Study of Perceptual Video Quality,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 612-627, February 2019.
- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "Large Scale Subjective Video Quality Study,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Athens, Greece, October 2018.
- Z. Sinno and A.C. Bovik, "LIVE Video Quality Challenge Database", Online: http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/LIVEVQC/index.html, 2018.
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