Evalvid - a Video Quality Evaluation Tool-Set
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EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set EvalVid is a framework and tool-set for evaluation of the quality of video transmitted over a real or simulated communication network. It is targeted for researchers who want to evaluate their network designs or setups in terms of user perceived video quality. Besides measuring QoS parameters of the underlying network, like loss rates, delays, and jitter, standard video quality metrics like PSNR and SSIM and a subjective video quality evaluation metric of the received video are provided. Currently H.264, MPEG-4 and H.263 are supported. AAC support is also included, though the perceptual quality evaluation has to be done by external tools implementing dedicated metrics like PESQ or PEAQ. EvalVid is written by Jirka Klaue. Call for participation In order to improve the usability and coverage of EvalVid I'd like to add some features frequently requested. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to implement all of them. For that reason I ask for help from interested parties. Following features are most often requested: ● Scalable Video Coding (SVC) support ● Support for On2's proprietary VP7 and/or VP8 codec in order to make it comparable with other state-of-the-art codecs Update: VP8 versus x264 codec comparison In case of interest please contact me by mail and I'll provide more details and support. Additionally, if problems occur or bugs are found or you have great ideas regarding EvalVid, I'm also interested to hear from you. I'm sure that each of the above topics can be formulated as a diploma thesis. Free MPEG-4 codecs ● XviD ● ffmpeg, libav, Free H.264 codecs ● H.264/AVC Reference Software ● x264 - a free h264/avc encoder ● SVC Reference Software http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/ (1 von 4)09.08.11 10:17 EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set Free H.263 codecs ● ffmpeg, libav, Commercial H.263, MPEG-4, H.264 codecs ● Apple QuickTime Pro ● DResearch Digital Media Systems GmbH ● List from IRT MP4 References and Tools ● ISO 14496-1 Media Format ● Apple QuickTime File Format ● GPAC Project on Advanced Content ● MPEG4IP Pre-compiled binaries (static) x264 MP4Box ffmpeg GPAC mplayer Mac OS X (x86_64) 28.05.2011 28.05.2011 28.05.2011 28.05.2011 28.05.2011 Windows 06.05.2011 11.04.2011 06.05.2011 11.04.2011 12.04.2011 Linux 12.04.2011 12.04.2011 12.04.2011 12.04.2011 12.04.2011 YUV 4:2:0 video sequences ● YUV CIF samples (lossless H.264) ● YUV QCIF samples (lossless H.264) ● ASU Video Traces Research Group (7-Zip) EvalVid Source Code ● EvalVid 2.7 Changelog EvalVid 2.6 EvalVid 2.5 EvalVid 2.4 http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/ (2 von 4)09.08.11 10:17 EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set EvalVid 2.3 EvalVid 2.2 EvalVid 2.1 EvalVid 2.0.1 EvalVid 1.2 evaluation and MPEG-4 (other work is based on tools this) EvalVid Binaries ● EvalVid 2.7 binaries (Win32) ● EvalVid 2.7 binaries (Mac OS X / Intel) ● EvalVid 2.7 binaries (Linux) ● Eval 1.2 binaries (Win32) ● Eval 1.2 binaries (Linux) ● MP4 1.2 binaries (Win32) ● MP4 1.2 binaries (Linux) Usage / Examples ● Usage of EvalVid 2 with GPAC (supports H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4) Example of EvalVid 2 (scripts, config files, pictures) Codec comparison VP8 versus x264 (target bit rate, PSNR, SSIM) ● Evalvid in ns-2 ChihHeng, Ke integrated EvalVid in ns-2 and also adapted it to the NCTU MPEG-4 codec. ● Evalvid-RA Arne Lie changed EvalVid 1.2, his Evalvid-RA can be used to simulate rate-adaptive MPEG-4 with ns-2. ● GUI for the video evaluation platform Evalvid Fabrice Arnal maintains a GUI for EvalVid. Publications about EvalVid ● J. Klaue, B. Rathke, and A. Wolisz, "EvalVid - A Framework for Video Transmission and Quality Evaluation", 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, pp. 255-272, Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 2003. DOI PDF ● J. Gross, J. Klaue, H. Karl and A. Wolisz, http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/ (3 von 4)09.08.11 10:17 EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set "Cross-layer optimization of OFDM transmission systems for MPEG-4 video streaming", Computer Communications, Volume 27, Issue 11, 10. February 2004. DOI PDF ● A. Lie, and J. Klaue, "Evalvid-RA: Trace Driven Simulation of Rate Adaptive MPEG-4 VBR Video", Multimedia Systems, Volume 14, Number 1, 13. November 2007. DOI PDF ● Other publications by Jirka Klaue. http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/ (4 von 4)09.08.11 10:17.