Quality comparison of the HEVC and VP9 encoders performance

• Published in: Multimedia tools and applications Vol. 76; no. 11; pp. 13633 - 13649
• Main Authors: Fernandes, Pedro, Bernardo, Marco V., G. Pinheiro, António M., Fiadeiro, Paulo T., Pereira, Manuela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Coders; Coding; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Data Structures and Information Theory; HD-DVD; High definition; Light emitting diodes; Multimedia Information Systems; Quality; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Video compression; Image quality; Visual communication; Quality assessment; Video codecs

This paper reports a comparison between two recent video codecs, namely the HEVC and the VP9, using High Definition Video Sequences encoded with different bit rates. A subjective test for the evaluation of the provided Quality of Experience is reported. The video sequences were shown to a panel of s...