Spatio-temporal quality pooling accounting for transient severe impairments and egomotion

With the increasing popularity of video applications, the reliable measurement of perceived video quality has increased in importance. We study methods for pooling video quality scores over space and time. The method accounts for localized severe impairments of the signal which exhibit significant influence on the subjective impression of the overall signal quality. It also accounts for the effect of camera motion (egomotion) on perceived quality. The method arrived at is tested on the LIVE Video Quality Database and is shown to perform quite well.