Video qualityVideo quality is a characteristic of a video passed through a video transmission or processing system that describes perceived video degradation (typically, compared to the original video). Video processing systems may introduce some amount of distortion or artifacts in the video signal that negatively impacts the user's perception of a system. For many stakeholders in video production and distribution, assurance of video quality is an important task. Video quality evaluation is performed to describe the quality of a set of video sequences under study.
Comparison of video codecsΑ video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding for digital video, and which may or may not include the use of video compression and/or decompression. Most codecs are typically implementations of video coding formats. The compression may employ lossy data compression, so that quality-measurement issues become important. Shortly after the compact disc became widely available as a digital-format replacement for analog audio, it became feasible to also store and use video in digital form.
H.264vignette|Le diagrame de ce système H.264, ou MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), ou MPEG-4 Part 10, est une norme de codage vidéo développée conjointement par l'UIT-T Q.6/SG16 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) ainsi que l'ISO/CEI Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) et est le produit d'un effort de partenariat connu sous le nom Joint Video Team (JVT). La norme UIT-T H.264 et la norme ISO/CEI MPEG-4 Part 10 (ISO/CEI 14496-10) sont techniquement identiques, et la technologie employée est aussi connue sous le nom AVC, pour Advanced Video Coding.
Subjective video qualitySubjective video quality is video quality as experienced by humans. It is concerned with how video is perceived by a viewer (also called "observer" or "subject") and designates their opinion on a particular video sequence. It is related to the field of Quality of Experience. Measuring subjective video quality is necessary because objective quality assessment algorithms such as PSNR have been shown to correlate poorly with subjective ratings. Subjective ratings may also be used as ground truth to develop new algorithms.
Paired difference testIn statistics, a paired difference test is a type of location test that is used when comparing two sets of paired measurements to assess whether their population means differ. A paired difference test uses additional information about the sample that is not present in an ordinary unpaired testing situation, either to increase the statistical power, or to reduce the effects of confounders.
H.265H.265, ou « MPEG-H HEVC » (High Efficiency Video Coding), est une norme de codage/compression vidéo ISO/CEI 23008-2 et UIT-T H.265, publiée le . Elle est développée conjointement par les groupes Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) et Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) et doit succéder au H.264 (ISO/CEI 14496-10 et UIT-T H.264). Ses applications concernent aussi bien la compression des vidéos en ultra-haute définition que la diminution du débit de transmission sur les réseaux pour les vidéos en définition standard avec des applications pour la vidéo sur mobile et pour l'extension de l'éligibilité aux services audiovisuels (TV, VoD.
Vidéothumb|Réalisateur vidéo Le terme vidéo désigne à la fois l'ensemble des techniques permettant la constitution d'un signal électrique représentant des s animées et la restitution de celles-ci ainsi que ce signal lui-même. Le signal vidéo se caractérise par différents paramètres normalisés : cadence image / trame, résolution, standard couleur éventuellement associé, composition analogique ou numérique, format d'image, données associées... Le mot « vidéo » provient du latin « video » signifiant « je vois », apocope de vidéophonie ou de vidéogramme.
Quality (business)In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality – or high quality – has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something (goods or services); it is also defined as being suitable for the intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations. Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace.
Subjective well-beingSubjective well-being (SWB) is a self-reported measure of well-being, typically obtained by questionnaire. Ed Diener developed a tripartite model of subjective well-being in 1984, which describes how people experience the quality of their lives and includes both emotional reactions and cognitive judgments. It posits "three distinct but often related components of wellbeing: frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and cognitive evaluations such as life satisfaction.
Advanced Audio CodingAdvanced Audio Coding (AAC, « encodage audio avancé ») est un algorithme de compression audio avec perte de données ayant pour but d’offrir un meilleur rapport qualité sur débit binaire que le format plus ancien MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3, plus connu sous le nom de MP3. Pour ces qualités, il est choisi par différentes entreprises dont Apple ou RealNetworks. La RNT (Radio numérique terrestre utilise le système de radio diffusion DAB+ (version améliorée du DAB, Digital Audio Broadcasting) qui intègre une version avancée du codec AAC : HE-AAC version 2, aussi appelé eAAC+, et défini dans la norme MPEG-4 Part 3.