Modeling of video compression effects on target acquisition performance

Jae H. Cha; Bradley Preece; Richard L. Espinola

doi:10.1117/12.817407

22 April 2009 Modeling of video compression effects on target acquisition performance

Jae H. Cha, Bradley Preece, Richard L. Espinola

Proceedings Volume 7300, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XX; 730009 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817407
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The effect of video compression on image quality was investigated from the perspective of target acquisition performance modeling. Human perception tests were conducted recently at the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC NVESD, measuring identification (ID) performance on simulated military vehicle targets at various ranges. These videos were compressed with different quality and/or quantization levels utilizing motion JPEG, motion JPEG2000, and MPEG-4 encoding. To model the degradation on task performance, the loss in image quality is fit to an equivalent Gaussian MTF scaled by the Structural Similarity Image Metric (SSIM). Residual compression artifacts are treated as 3-D spatio-temporal noise. This 3-D noise is found by taking the difference of the uncompressed frame, with the estimated equivalent blur applied, and the corresponding compressed frame. Results show good agreement between the experimental data and the model prediction. This method has led to a predictive performance model for video compression by correlating various compression levels to particular blur and noise input parameters for NVESD target acquisition performance model suite.

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Jae H. Cha, Bradley Preece, and Richard L. Espinola "Modeling of video compression effects on target acquisition performance", Proc. SPIE 7300, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XX, 730009 (22 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817407

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