HDR or SDR? A Subjective and Objective Study of Scaled and Compressed Videos

• Published in: IEEE transactions on image processing Vol. 33; pp. 3606 - 3619
• Main Authors: Ebenezer, Joshua P., Shang, Zaixi, Chen, Yixu, Wu, Yongjun, Wei, Hai, Sethuraman, Sriram, Bovik, Alan C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Brightness; Display devices; Dynamic range; High dynamic range; Image coding; Measurement; Quality assessment; Scaling; Solid modeling; Video; video compression; video quality assessment; Videos

We conducted a large-scale study of human perceptual quality judgments of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) videos subjected to scaling and compression levels and viewed on three different display devices. While conventional expectations are that HDR quality is better than SD...