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MSU Video Codecs Comparison
MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group)

Project head: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
Testing, charts, analysis: Sergey Grishin
Translating: Daria Kalinkina, Stanislav Soldatov
Preparing: Nikolai Trunichkin

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Abstract

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• 9 testing sequences!
• 11 days (260 hours) total compression time!
• 33 tested codecs!
• 190 pages of comparison report!
• 2430 resulting sequences!

Download MSU Codec Comparison (all files in ZIP - 4.8 Mb).

Totally 32 available codecs were tested.
9 sequences with different characteristics were selected as test ones. To check all codecs on different bitrates we had to run them about 2.4 thousand times with different parameters! And in fact we had to test only default parameters here.
Total computational time was more that 11 days, and real time was more, because of errors , including codec ones.
As a result you can see the report below, which includes part (not all) of a received analytical data.
Obviously this report is not full and it will be revised when new codecs, data and analysis will be available. Good luck!

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Download

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• MSU Codec Comparison (all files in ZIP - 4.8 Mb).
• Part 1. Codec & sequence description (2.0 Mb)
• Part 2. PSNR Diagrams (2.4 Kb)
• Part 3. Frame-accurate Comparison (2.2 Kb)
• Part 4. Visual Comparison. (3.8 Mb)
• This comparison FAQ

Call for HEVC codecs 2017
See all MSU Video Codec Comparisons

MSU video codecs comparisons resources:

• Introduction to Video Codecs Comparison
• Lossless Video Ñodecs Comparison 2004 (October 2004)
• MPEG-4 SP/ASP Video Codecs Comparison (March 2005)
• JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison (September 2005)
• First Annual MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (January 2005)
• FAQ of First MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Comparison
• Selected Comments for First MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Comparison
• Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison (December 2005)
• FAQ of Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
• Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs (February 2006)
• MPEG-2 Video Decoders Comparison (May 2006)
• WMP and JPEG2000 Comparison (October 2006)
• Third Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (December 2006) (All versions for free!)
• Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 (March 2007)
• Fourth Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (December 2007) (All versions for free!)
• Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264 (December 2008)
• Fifth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2009) (All versions for free!)
• Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2010)
• Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2011)
• Eighth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2012)
• Ninth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (Dec 2013)
• Tenth Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Oct 2015)
• Eleventh Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Aug 2016)
• Codec Analysis for Companies: (New!)
  • Private Video Codec Comparison
  • Ext. link: ViCoS - Video Codecs Scoring System
  • MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool

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Other materials

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Video resources:

3D and stereo video Projects on 3D and stereo video processing and analysis MSU S3D-video analysis   1-st report (5 movies, captured)   2-nd report (5 movies, captured)   3-rd report (5 movies, 2D-3D conversion)   4-th report (5 movies, captured)   5-th report (5 movies, 2D-3D conversion)   6-th report (10 movies, Stereo Window)   7-th report (10 movies, Stereo Window)   8-th report (25 movies)   9-th report (105 movies) (New!) MSU 3D Devices Testing Semiautomatic Visual-Attention Model Video Matting (New!) 3D Displays Video Generation 3D Displays Video Capturing Stereo Video Depth Map Generation MSU Video Quality Measurement tools Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool - objective metrics for codecs and filters comparison (Top!) Implemented metrics short info: PSNR, Delta, MSAD, MSE, SSIM, VQM, MSU Blurring Metric, MSU Blocking Metric MSU Brightness Flicking Metric MSU Brightness Independent PSNR MSU Drop Frame Metric MSU Noise Estimation Metric MSU Scene Change Detector MSU VQMT FAQ MSU Human Perceptual Quality Metric - several metrics for exact visual tests (Top!) Implemented metrics short info: ITU-R BT.500-11: DSIS, DSCQS I & II, SCACJ; EBU: SAMVIQ; MSUCQE MSU PVQ Metric Tool FAQ	Codecs comparisons Objective and subjective quality evaluation tests for video and image codecs Call for HEVC Codecs - 2017! HEVC Codec Comparison - 2016 HEVC Codec Comparison - 2015 9-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 8-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 7-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 6-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 5-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison Codec Analysis for Companies: Private Video Codec Comparison MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool Options Analysis of Codec x264 4-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison (Top!) Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 3-rd MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison HD Photo and JPEG 2000 Comparison MPEG-2 Decoders Crash Test (Top!) Subjective Compar. of 4 Modern Codecs (Top!) 2-nd MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (Top!) FAQ of 2-nd H.264 Comparison 1-st MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codecs Comparison FAQ of 1-st H.264 Comparison JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison (Top!) Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2004 MPEG-4 SP/ASP Codecs Comparison (Top!) Video codecs comparison (old) Ext. link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison
Public MSU video filters Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. For a given type of digital video filtration we typically develop a family of different algorithms and implementations. Generally there are also versions optimized for PC and hardware implementations (ASIC/FPGA/DSP). These optimized versions can be licensed to companies. Please contact us for details via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru. MSU Cartoon Restore MSU Noise Estimation MSU Frame Rate Conversion MSU Image Restoration MSU Denoising (Top!) MSU Old Cinema MSU Deblocking (Top!) MSU Smart Brightness and Contrast (Top!) MSU Smart Sharpen (Top!) MSU Noise generation MSU Noise estimation MSU Motion Estimation Information MSU Subtitles removal MSU Logo removal (Top!) MSU Deflicker (Top!) MSU Field Shift Fixer AviSynth plug-in MSU StegoVideo MSU Cartoonizer (Top!) MSU SmartDeblocking (Top!) MSU Color Enhancement MSU Old Color Restoration MSU TV Commercial Detector MSU filters FAQ (Read me!) MSU filters statistics	Filters for companies We are working with Intel, Samsung, RealNetworks and other companies on adapting our filters other video processing algorithms for specific video streams, applications and hardware like TV-sets, graphics cards, etc. Some of such projects are non-exclusive. Also we have internal researches. Please let us know via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru if you are interested in acquiring a license for such filters or making a custom R&D project on video processing, compression, computer vision. 3D Displays Video Generation 3D Displays Video Capturing Stereo Video Depth Map Generation Automatic Objects Segmentation Semiautomatic Objects Segmentation New Frame Rate Conversion New Deinterlacer MSU-Samsung Deinterlacing Project Digital TV Signal Enhancement Old Film Recovery Tuner TV Restore Panorama Video2Photo SuperResolution SuperPrecision MSU-Samsung image and video resampling MSU-Samsung Frame Rate Conversion Motion Phase filter Deshaker (video stabilization) Film Grain/Degrain filter Deblurring filter Video Content Search
Video codecs projects Different research and development projects on video codecs MSU Lossless Video Codec (Top!) MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec (Top!) MSU MPEG-2 Video Codec x264 Codec Improvement	Other Other information Crazy gallery (filters screams :) License for commercial usage of MSU VideoGroup Public Software (please be careful: some soft like metrics has another license!)

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