SUMMARYA simple and efficient reduced-reference video quality assessment method based on the activity-difference of DCT coefficients is proposed. The method provides better accuracy, monotonicity, and consistent predictions than the PSNR full-reference metric and comparable results with the full-reference SSIM. It also shows an improved performance to a similar VQ technique based on the calculation of the pixel luminance differences performed in the spatial-domain. key words: DCT, reduced-reference metric, video quality assessment

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Video quality evaluation is an important subject in video broadcasting. No-Reference (NR) metrics are especially interesting, given that it does not demand the original video for the quality assessment, thus it is adequate for industrial applications. This work describes the implementation of a NR technique in an FPGA platform that can be potentially employed in real time video quality assessment in broadcast systems.

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