Patent ID: 8457204

Claim:
An objective perceptual video quality evaluation apparatus configured to estimate a subjective video quality by analyzing two types of video signals of an original video and an evaluated video, comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); said CPU adapted to configure a feature amount extracting processor unit to extract a block distortion degree of the evaluated video relative to the original video, a PSNR overall temporal fluctuation degree for frames in a sequence, and a PSNR local temporal fluctuation degree for each of the frames as feature amounts; said CPU adapted to configure an objective video quality index calculating processor unit to calculate a weighted sum of the block distortion degree, the PSNR overall temporal fluctuation degree, and the PSNR local temporal fluctuation degree, and calculating an objective video quality index; said CPU adapted to configure frame rate detecting processor unit to detect frame rate of the evaluated video; said CPU adapted to configure a correcting processor unit to correct the objective video quality index calculated by the objective video quality index calculating processor unit based on the frame rate detected by the frame rate detecting processor unit; and said CPU adapted to configure a subjective video quality estimated value deriving processor unit to derive a subjective video quality estimated value by applying the objective video quality index corrected by the correcting processor unit to a correlation between the subjective video quality index and the objective video quality given in advance, wherein said CPU adapted to configure the objective video quality index calculating processor unit to calculate an intra-frame average value of a DC difference among a plurality of pixel blocks of each of the original video and the evaluated video and pixel blocks adjacent to the pixel block of interest, and to calculate an intra-sequence maximum difference between the intra-frame average value of the DC difference for the original video and the intra-frame average value of the DC difference for the evaluated video as a maximum value of the DC difference, and to calculate an intra-sequence minimum difference between the intra-frame average value of the DC difference for the original video and the intra-frame average value of the DC difference for the evaluated video as a minimum value of the DC difference, and to obtain a difference between the maximum value of the DC difference and the minimum value of the DC difference as the block distortion degree.