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AG 5 – MPEG Visual Quality Assessment

Terms of reference: To support needs for quality assessment testing in close coordination with the relevant MPEG Working Groups, dealing with visual quality, with the following activities:

  • To assess the visual quality of new technologies to be considered to begin a new standardization project;
  • To contribute to the definition of Calls for Proposals (CfPs) for new standardization work items;
  • To select and design subjective quality evaluation methodologies and objective quality metrics for the assessment of visual coding technologies, e.g. in the context of a Call for Evidence (CfE) and CfP;
  • To contribute to the selection of test material and coding conditions for a CfP;
  • To define the procedures useful to assess the visual quality of the submissions to a CfP;
  • To design and conduct visual quality tests, process and analyse the raw data, and make the report of the evaluation results available conclusively;
  • To support in the assessment of the final status of a standard, verifying its performance compared to the existing standard(s);
  • To maintain databases of test material;
  • To recommend guidelines for selection of testing laboratories (verifying their current capabilities);
  • To liaise with ITU and other relevant organizations on the creation of new Quality Assessment standards or the improvement of the existing ones.

Meeting documents of AG 5

MPEG 147

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Explorations50 - Interactive testing for volumetric visual mediaReport on interactive subjective quality assessment test investigations for volumetric video

MPEG 146

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Explorations41 - Enhanced compression beyond VVC capabilityVisual quality comparison of ECM/VTM encoding
Explorations49 - Quality metrics for 2D videoCall for learning-based video codecs for study of quality assessment, version 2

MPEG 144

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ExplorationsCVQM - Dataset of compressed video for study of quality metrics (draft 2)
ExplorationsCall for learning-based video codecs for study of quality assessment, version 1
MPEG-I3 - Versatile Video CodingReport of verification test on VVC multi-layer coding: Content layering

MPEG 140

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Explorations41 - Enhanced compression beyond VVC capabilityVisual quality comparison of ECM/VTM encoding

MPEG 138

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ExplorationsLearning-based quality metrics and 2D video databases under study (v2)

MPEG 137

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Explorations37 - Quality of Immersive MediaOverview of quality metrics and methodologies for immersive visual media (v3)

MPEG 136

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AllGuidelines for Verification Testing of Visual Media Specifications
AllGuidelines for Remote Experts Viewing sessions
AllReport on MPEG AG 5 Workshop on Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics

MPEG 135

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ManagementAHGs Established at 4th Meeting
AllGuidelines for Verification Testing of Visual Media Specifications (draft 2)
AllGuidelines for remote experts viewing sessions (draft 1)
AllWorkshop on Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics

MPEG 133

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ManagementAHGs Established at 2nd AG05 Meeting