Subjective quality assessment of H.264/AVC encoded low resolution videos

Advancements in the video processing area have been proliferated by services that require low delay. Such services involve applications being offered at various temporal and spatial resolutions. It necessitates to study the impacts of related video coding conditions upon perceptual quality. But most of studies concerned with quality assessment of videos affected by coding distortions lack in variety of spatio-temporal resolutions. This paper presents a work done on quality assessment of videos encoded by state-of-the-art H.264/AVC standard at different bitrates and frame rates. Overall, 120 test scenarios for video sequences having different spatial and temporal spectral information were studied. The used coded bistreams in this work and the corresponding subjective assessment scores have been made public for the research community to facilitate further studies.