Comparative Study of Compression Techniques for Synthetic Videos

Abstract

We evaluate the performance of three state of the art video codecs on synthetic videos. The evaluation is based on both subjective and objective quality metrics. The subjective quality of the compressed video sequences is evaluated using the Double Stimulus Impairment Scale (DSIS) assessment metric while the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) is used for the objective evaluation. An extensive number of experiments are conducted to study the effect of frame rate and resolution on codecs' performance for synthetic videos. The evaluation results show that video codecs respond in different ways to frame rate and frame resolution change. H.264 shows superior capabilities compared to other codecs. Mean Opinion Score (MOS) results are shown for various bitrates, frame rates and frame resolutions.