[Mp4-tech] New MSU video quality metrics are released in open source

[Dmitriy Vatolin]

Hello!
  This summer we release our MSU Video Quality Metric Tool 1.2 with
  plug-ins support. Main idea was to simplify update of research metrics
  and third party metrics usage.
  During last months we have small anniversary - total number of metrics
  downloads from official page become bigger than 25000.
  Also 2 days ago we are released several metric plug-in's in source code
  under LGPL:
  * MSU Brightness Independent PSNR.
    Main idea: It's common situation during testing (we made big
    amount of tests), when codec change brightness a little. This metric
    is compensate such changes for ANY brightness modification (up
    to negative frame).
    http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/metric_plugins/bi-psnr_en.htm
  * MSU Brightness Flicking Metric.
    Main idea: Simple flicking calculation (can be enhanced).
    http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/metric_plugins/bfm_en.htm
  * MSU Drop Frame Metric.
    Main idea: Some codecs on low bitrates drop more frames, some -
    less. It's good idea to calculate not only PSNR/SSIM but also number
    of dropped frames as codec characteristic. Also this metric is
    useful for capture device/program evaluation.
    http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/metric_plugins/dfm_en.htm
   Now it's easy to add new metric to the tool.
   For example:
   * Faster metrics (using MMX-SSE2, HW acceleration, DirectShow,
     Shaders based GPU acceleration and etc)
   * New special blurring (blocking, interlacing, etc) measures
   * New perfect formal metrics (again better than PSNR)
   Hope with metrics plugins we will help to develop new good metrics
   for video fun's and pro's.
   Any ideas about new future metrics development are welcome!
Yours,
 Dr. Vatolin