Preface

End-users of video applications are seeking and receiving increasingly more control over their operations. Uploading video to the Internet is only the beginning of a trend in which a consumer controls video quality by balancing various other factors. Emerging applications will give further control to the end-user, such as for video analysis and classification; open-source applications for private party content generation, editing, and archiving; and applications for cloud asset management. Thus, it is important to understand the concepts and methods for evaluating the various video measures.

Owing to characteristics of the human visual system (HVS), some loss in visual quality is perceptible, but much is not. Taking advantage of this ...

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