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Comparison of HDTV formats using objective video quality measures

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In this paper we compare some of the objective quality measures with subjective, in several HDTV formats, to be able to grade the quality of the objective measures. Also, comparison of objective and subjective measures between progressive and interlaced video signal will be presented to determine which scanning emission format is better, even if it has different resolution format. Several objective quality measures will be tested, to examine the correlation with the subjective test, using various performance measures.

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Acknowledgement

The work described in this paper was conducted under the research projects: “Picture Quality Management in Digital Video Broadcasting” (036-0361630-1635), and “Intelligent Image Features Extraction in Knowledge Discovery Systems” (036-0982560-1643), supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

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    Emil Dumic, Sonja Grgic & Mislav Grgic

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Dumic, E., Grgic, S. & Grgic, M. Comparison of HDTV formats using objective video quality measures. Multimed Tools Appl 49, 409–424 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0441-2

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