A multi-metric objective picture-quality measurement model for MPEG video

Different coding schemes introduce different artifacts to the decoded pictures, making it difficult to design an objective quality model capable of measuring all of them. A feasible approach is to design a picture-quality model for each kind of known distortion, and combine the results from the models according to the perceptual impact of each type of impairment. In this letter, a multi-metric model comprising of a perceptual model and a blockiness detector is proposed, designed for MPEG video. Very high correlation between the objective scores from the model and the subjective assessment results has been achieved