AVT-VQDB-UHD-1: A Large Scale Video Quality Database for UHD-1

4K television screens or even with higher resolutions are currently available in the market. Moreover video streaming providers are able to stream videos in 4K resolution and beyond. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important to have a proper understanding of video quality especially in case of 4K videos. To this effect, in this paper, we present a study of subjective and objective quality assessment of 4K ultra-high-definition videos of short duration, similar to DASH segment lengths. As a first step, we conducted four subjective quality evaluation tests for compressed versions of the 4K videos. The videos were encoded using three different video codecs, namely H.264, HEVC, and VP9. The resolutions of the compressed videos ranged from 360p to 2160p with framerates varying from 15fps to 60fps. All the source 4K contents used were of 60fps. We included low quality conditions in terms of bitrate, resolution and framerate to ensure that the tests cover a wide range of conditions, and that e.g. possible models trained on this data are more general and applicable to a wider range of real world applications. The results of the subjective quality evaluation are analyzed to assess the impact of different factors such as bitrate, resolution, framerate, and content. In the second step, different state-of-the-art objective quality models were applied to all videos and their performance was analyzed in comparison with the subjective ratings, e.g. using Netflix's VMAF. The videos, subjective scores, both MOS and confidence interval per sequence and objective scores are made public for use by the community for further research.