Influence of Chroma Subsampling on Objective Video Quality Assessment for High Resolutions

Abstract

This paper deals with the influence of chroma subsampling on video quality measured by objective metrics for H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC compression standards. The evaluation is done for eight types of sequences with full HD and ultra HD resolutions depending on content. The experimental results showed that there is no impact of chroma subsampling on the video. According to the results, it can also be said that H.265/HEVC codec yields better compression efficiency than H.264/AVC and the different is more visible in UHD resolution. The bigger difference in quality is in lower bitrates, with increasing bitrate the quality of H.264/AVC codec approaches the H.265/HEVC codec.