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Projects, ideas: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
Implementation: Alexey Moskvin, Oleg Petrov

MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool
• Features (supported formats, supported metrics, features list)
• Setting & screenshots (advanced files settings, visualization settings)
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Plugins & Plugin SDK
• Metrics info (PSNR, MSE, MSAD, SSIM, VQM, MSU Blurring/Blocking)
• PRO version (with command-line interface)
• Free Download & purchase (last version, changelog and purchase link for PRO version)

Brief Description

• More than 50000 downloads.
• More than 20 contributors
• The largest quantity of objective metrics in single tool.
• Simple and powerful tool for deep codecs & filters analysis.

Version 1.52: Error in saving CSV file for comparative analysis fixed
Changelog >>

Supported video formats:

1. *.AVI
2. *.AVS
3. *.YUV (scientific)
4. *.BMP (RGB24)
5. Via AviSynth: MOV, VOB, WMV, MP4, MPG etc

Main Features

1. Results are saved in *.CSV (can be opened everywhere)
2. All metrics are visualized (very useful for codec and filter debugging)
3. Main feature for codec lovers: comparative analysis (!!!) Now everybody in 5 minutes is able to demonstrate that one codec is better than another! It's easy:
   1. Set "comparative analysis" and select original, sequences compressed with codec A and codec B (recommended more than 10000 frames).
   2. Select metric (recommended Y-PSNR).
   3. Select "Save bad frames" pairs of frames with maximum difference in values of the metric (A>B) will be detected and saved.
   4. Press "Process", find output frames and select best pairs.
   5. Upload frames to your favorite forum.
   6. Done!
   If you want to prove, that codec B is better than A just swap compressed files in metric form fields. :) Codec and filter developers can use this feature for tuning (fast codec/filter update testing).
4. Plug-ins interface allows to add your own metrics to our tool.

Comparison with freeware analogs

Contacts

Other resources

Video resources:

Public MSU video filters Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. Commonly we develop a whole family of some kind of a filter. 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 (New!) MSU Noise Estimation (New!) MSU Frame Rate Conversion (New!) MSU Image Restoration (New!) 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 filters FAQ (Read me!) MSU filters statistics (New!)	MSU 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. Automatic Objects Segmentation (New!) Semiautomatic Objects Segmentation New Frame Rate Conversion (New!) New Deinterlacer (New!) 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 (New!) Deblurring filter Video Content Marking
Codecs comparisons Objective and subjective quality evaluation tests for video and image codecs 4-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison (New!) Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 (New!) 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) Ads link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison	Video quality metrics Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation MSU Video Quality Metric - objective metrics for codecs and filters comparison (Top!) Implemented metrics short info: PSNR, Delta, MSAD, MSE, SSIM, VQM, MSU Blurring, MSU Blocking MSU Brightness Flicking Metric MSU Brightness Independent PSNR MSU Drop Frame Metric MSU Noise Estimation Metric MSU VQM Metric Tool 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
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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Last updated: 15-October-2007

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Project sponsored by YUVsoft Corp.

Project supported by MSU Graphics & Media Lab