Adaptive Quantization Matrices for HD and UHD Resolutions in Scalable HEVC

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), and its standardized extensions including Scalable HEVC (SHVC), contains a feature to enable default or custom Quantization Matrices (QMs). The default intra QM technique in HEVC, originally designed for the JPEG standard [1, 2], is based on a perceptual Human Visual System (HVS) Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF) approach and its associated Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) [3]. Visual Display Units (VDUs), capable of displaying video data at High Definition (HD) and Ultra HD (UHD) display resolutions, are frequently utilized in a vast variety of technological domains. Compression artifacts caused by quantization, which are not noticeable in low display resolution environments, are clearly visible on HD and UHD video data and VDUs.