A No-reference video quality assessment based on two-pass edge analysis and background subtraction

A novel no-reference video quality assessment is proposed in this paper. The proposed metric is based on the combination of two-pass edge analysis and background subtraction. The two-pass edge analysis is a blur metric we proposed in our previous work, which has gain an efficient performance in image blur assessment and other image processing applications. We apply the two-pass edge analysis to the video quality assessment in order to calculate the quality of each frame in the video. On the other hand, considering that one will pay his most attention on the foreground of the video. So we also apply the background subtraction to get the foreground of the video and only use these foreground to calculate the video quality. Experiments in the last section shows that our proposed no-reference metric has a good performance in the test sequences.