Analysis of SSIM performance for Digital Cinema applications

Abstract

Visual quality is one of the most important issues in Digital Cinema applications, and the most practical method to measure visual quality is using objective metrics. Several objective metrics that take into account perceived visual quality have been developed in the past few years; one of them is based on the structural similarity paradigm. To analyze the performance of these objective metrics for digital cinema applications, a subjective visual quality assessment in digital cinema environments using contents from the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) Standard Evaluation Material has been conducted in a previous study. Since in practice digital cinema utilizes only high quality imagery, in this paper we analyze further a subset of highquality stimuli from the previous study.

Exploring alternative content in Digital Cinema

“…We participate in the research of QoE in DCinema by exploiting a commercial DCI-specified cinema in Trondheim (Nova Kino 1) as a realistic test environment for numerous experiments, and we had made several contributions on visual perceptual quality of high quality imagery in DCinema [7], [8], [9].…”