Computer Graphics
TU Braunschweig

Video Quality Assessment

Abstract

Goal of this project is to assess the quality of rendered videos and especially detect those frames that contain visible artifacts, e.g. ghosting, blurring or popping.

Publications


Thomas Löwe, Michael Stengel, Emmy-Charlotte Förster, Steve Grogorick, Marcus Magnor:
Gaze Visualization for Immersive Video
in Burch, Michael and Chuang, Lewis and Fisher, Brian and Schmidt, Albrecht and Weiskopf, Daniel (Eds.): Eye Tracking and Visualization, Springer, ISBN 978-3319470238, pp. 57-71, March 2017.


Maryam Mustafa, Marcus Magnor:
ElectroEncephaloGraphics: Making Waves in Computer Graphics Research
in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 46-56, November 2014.

Maryam Mustafa, Stefan Guthe, Marcus Magnor:
Single Trial EEG Classification of Artifacts in Videos
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 12:1-12:15, July 2012.

Lea Lindemann, Stephan Wenger, Marcus Magnor:
Evaluation of Video Artifact Perception Using Event-Related Potentials
in Proc. ACM Applied Perception in Computer Graphics and Visualization (APGV), p. 5, August 2011.


Kai Berger, Christian Lipski, Christian Linz, Anita Sellent, Marcus Magnor:
A ghosting artifact detector for interpolated image quality assessment
in Proc. ACM Applied Perception in Computer Graphics and Visualization (APGV), September 2009.


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