MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool: SDK

MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group)


Plugins & Plugin SDK


Front SDK

Front SDK is a toolset that allows you developing you own metric to use in MSU VQMT.

Front SDK is free and can be used with all versions of MSU VQMT since version 1.2 (Free, PRO, Premium, and also available for Windows, Linux). To build your own plug-in, you should make a C-compatible shared library for the corresponding operaton system.

MSU VQMT front SDK is supplied with MSU VQMT installers for Windows.

You also can download front SDK and find a documentation, sample on our GitHub

We also have several opensource plug-in samples, of real plug-ins of MSU VQMT:

Please, don't hesitate to contact us in case of any question/problem. We are also open for feature requests

e-mail: video-measure@compression.ru

Back SDK

Back SDK is aimed to companies who wants to integrate it's own products with MSU VQMT metrics. MSU VQMT Back SDK allows you effective (singlethreaded or multithreaded) usage of all metrics of MSU VQMT and image transformations inside your application.

Proceed to purchase SDK: Buy SDK

VQMT SDK is provided as Linux shared library. VQMT back SDK compatible with C/C++, you can download interface here:

Here you can also find SDK usage sample:

Sample output:

$ ./vqmt_sdktest ~/video/cinepack.yuv ~/video/loseless.yuv yuv420p 1280 720 all
psnr:                      39.985
psnr PSNR (256):           39.985
psnr APSNR:                39.985
psnr APSNR (256):          39.985
ssim:                      0.960733
ssim precise:              0.96347
ssim GPU identical:        0.980512
msssim:                    0.989333
msssim precise:            0.993107
3ssim:                     0.948871
vqm:                       0.503724
blocking:                  40.4037
blurring:                  0.0115356
blurring delta:            2.29336
delta:                     0.000120949
msad:                      0.873773
mse:                       2.64237
dfm:                       0
bi_psnr:                   43.8853 2.65798
niqe:                      8.24557
scd:                       0
vmaf:                      73.8748
ne:                        0.00107096
bfm:                       0

Please, don't hesitate to contact us in case of any question/problem. We are also open for feature requests

e-mail: video-measure@compression.ru


MSU Video Quality Measurement Tools



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