Ann Marie Rohaly reported that the VQEG Final Report was ratified, closing out the first phase of testing. An ad hoc group looked at designing a more discriminating full-reference video quality test. Other groups looked at reduced reference and no-reference quality tests for both broadcast and multimedia applications. A complete list of the Ad Hoc Committees, including chairs and committee email reflectors, is available in the VQEG March 2000 Meeting Report and the Liaison Statement, VQEG, IEEE Doc. A questionnaire will be sent out.
Work continues on the email reflector.
Under the Phase 2 full-reference TV quality test plan, two viewing distances would be used. Some HRCs, such as multi-generation Betacam, H263, transmission errors and analog may be eliminated from the testing. It was noted that when these were eliminated from the original data set, the test results became worse, not better. There was another comment that the quality of the HRC scenes had to be looked at. It was countered, however, that this was done on purpose to accelerate progress.