MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool

The tool provides functionality for calculating:

• metric values for each frame
• average value for sequence
• metric values for specific color component

The tool supports performing some metrics on CUDA compatible devices (nVIDIA video cards) and all other OpenCL compatible devices (wide set of video cards, CPUs, multicore systems)

• PSNR (4 variations)
• Delta
• MSAD
• MSE
• SSIM (2 variations, GPU, OpenCL support)
• MS-SSIM (2 variations, GPU, OpenCL support)
• 3SSIM (GPU, OpenCL support)
• stSSIM
• VMAF
• VQM
• MSU Blurring Metric
• MSU Blocking Metric
• MSU Brightness Flicking Metric – opensource plugin
• MSU Brightness Independent PSNR – opensource plugin
• MSU Drop Frame Metric – opensource plugin
• MSU Noise Estimation Metric
• MSU Scene Change Detector
• NIQE

• Video files: *.AVI, *.DAT, *.DIVX, *.F4V, *.FLV, *.H265, *.M2TS, *.M2V, *.M4V, *.MKV, *.MOV, *.MP4, *.MPG, *.MTS, *.MXF, *.OGM, *.OGV, *.QT, *.TS, *.VOB, *.WMV, *.265, *.3G2, *.3GP, *.3GPP and others
• AviSynth: *.AVS
• RAW files: *.YUV (scientific), *.Y4M
• Image files and image sequences: *.BMP, *.CUT, *.DDS, *.EXR, *.G3, *.GIF, *.HDR, *.ICO, *.IFF, *.LBM, *.J2K, *.J2C, *.JNG, *.JP2, *.JPG, *.JIF, *.JPEG, *.JPE, *.JXR, *.WDP, *.HDP, *.MNG, *.PCD, *.PCX, *.PCT, *.PICT, *.PIC, *.PNG, *.PBM, *.PGM, *.PPM, *.PSD, *.RAS, *.SGI, *.RGB, *.RGBA, *.BW, *.TGA, *.TARGA, *.TIF, *.TIFF, *.WAP, *.WBMP, *.WBM, *.WEBP, *.XBM, *.XPM

Allows to calculate metrics in Regions of Interest (ROI). ROI should be specified by additional provided video with mask for each frame.

Video visualization file is generated for combination [metric, color component, reference]. Color and luminance of each pixel in visuzalization video is defined by metric value in that pixel (very useful for codec and filter debugging).

Metrics results and average values are saved in set of *.CSV (comma-separated values) file which can be opened everywhere.

All metric results and information about file opening are saved in single JSON file or stdout of command line utility.

Free version license agreement allows only personal usage.

Multiple references can be compared against the original simultaneously.

(over 8 bits per color component)

• RAW files
  • P010 (10 bit 4:2:0 yuv)
  • P014 (14 bit 4:2:0 yuv)
  • P016 (16 bit 4:2:0 yuv)
  • P210 (10 bit 4:2:2 yuv)
  • P214 (14 bit 4:2:2 yuv)
  • P216 (16 bit 4:2:2 yuv)
  • P410 (10 bit 4:4:4 yuv)
  • P414 (14 bit 4:4:4 yuv)
  • P416 (16 bit 4:4:4 yuv)
  • P410_RGB (10 bit 4:4:4 rgb)
  • P414_RGB (14 bit 4:4:4 rgb)
  • P416_RGB (16 bit 4:4:4 rgb)
  • Float (32 bit 4:4:4 yuv)
  • Float_RGB (32 bit 4:4:4 rgb)
• TIFF files with 1-16-bit integers or 32-bit floats
• Whole set of PXM (PBM, PGM and PPM)

VQMT provides GUI and command-line (CL) interfaces. It is possible using CL-tool to calculate several metrics for a given set of color components simultaneously and for more files (in parallel), thus achieving significant speed advantage comparing to case of using GUI tool.

Processing of video with resolution equal or higher than 1280x720: HD, FullHD, 4K, 8K video.

Efficient Python-interface for running VQMT and getting results.