Comparison of objective quality assessment methods for scalable video coding

Appropriate delivery of a video material over networks under various conditions represents a certain challenge. It is necessary to adapt video content in order to ensure the best possible quality of transmitted material in every moment, regarding to variable network conditions. This problem can be solved with scalable video coding — SVC. Since subjective video quality tests are complex and comprehensive, in this paper the scalable coded video materials are evaluated with several objective video quality metrics. The general idea was to find out which of them gives the best match with the results of subjective tests for scalable coded video materials. There is shown the correlation between subjective and objective tests and general conclusions are drown.