Omnidirectional Video Quality Metrics and Evaluation Process

Abstract

Widespread of virtual reality technologies across entertainment formats has created a diverse infrastructure of related technologies as head-mount displays, dome screens and virtual reality multi-camera platforms. As omnidirectional content is processing pipeline is completely different form conventional planar video and involves multiple conversion steps which affect quality in a different way. As a result of our research we propose objective quality estimation methodology and a set of tools to evaluate different projection methods and coding tools for omnidirectional video content.