Subjective Quality Assessment of Compressed Tone-Mapped High Dynamic Range Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15061v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:38:16 GMT
• Title: Subjective Quality Assessment of Compressed Tone-Mapped High Dynamic Range Videos
• Authors: Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Alan C. Bovik,
• Abstract summary: We analyze the impact of tonemapping operators on the visual quality of streaming HDR videos. We build the first large-scale subjectively open-source database of compressed tone-mapped HDR videos.
• Score: 35.19716951217485
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos are able to represent wider ranges of contrasts and colors than Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) videos, giving more vivid experiences. Due to this, HDR videos are expected to grow into the dominant video modality of the future. However, HDR videos are incompatible with existing SDR displays, which form the majority of affordable consumer displays on the market. Because of this, HDR videos must be processed by tone-mapping them to reduced bit-depths to service a broad swath of SDR-limited video consumers. Here, we analyze the impact of tone-mapping operators on the visual quality of streaming HDR videos. To this end, we built the first large-scale subjectively annotated open-source database of compressed tone-mapped HDR videos, containing 15,000 tone-mapped sequences derived from 40 unique HDR source contents. The videos in the database were labeled with more than 750,000 subjective quality annotations, collected from more than 1,600 unique human observers. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new subjective database by benchmarking objective models of visual quality on it. We envision that the new LIVE Tone-Mapped HDR (LIVE-TMHDR) database will enable significant progress on HDR video tone mapping and quality assessment in the future. To this end, we make the database freely available to the community at https://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/LIVE_TMHDR/index.html

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