Quality measurement of audiovisual signals based on digital watermarking

图像、视频、语音和音频的质量测量在当今的视频广播、电话网络、传输控制和电子商务中至关重要，这主要是因为质量是客户满意度的关键决定因素和传输条件的关键指标。主观质量评估非常不适合在线监测和广播应用，并且非常昂贵和耗时。现有的客观质量测量度量需要原始信号进行比较。这种要求使得这些度量对于需要通过数据网络广播或传输视听信号的那些应用（例如，对于电视视频、移动的视频或互联网电话）来说不是最佳的。提出了一种基于数字水印的视听信号质量度量方法。我们最近的研究成果已经证明了可行性和前景。我们相信，我们将能够提出不仅可以测量图像和语音质量，还可以测量视频和音频质量的方法;不仅可以测量JPEG压缩和MP3压缩的效果，还可以测量图像，视频，语音和音频的各种常见失真的效果;不仅可以测量单个失真的效果，还可以测量组合的多个失真的效果。设想的质量测量方法将大大有助于视频和音频广播和电话行业以及法医分析和内容认证等其他领域。

The quality measurement of image, video, speech and audio is of critical importance in today's video broadcasting, telephony networks, transmission control, and e-commerce, mainly because quality is a key determinant of customer satisfaction and a key indicator of transmission condition. Subjective quality evaluation is highly unsuitable for online monitoring and broadcasting applications and is also very expensive and time consuming. The existing objective quality measurement metrics need the original signal for comparison. This requirement makes these metrics less than optimal for those applications that require audiovisual signals to be broadcasted or transmitted through the data network such as for television video, mobile video, or internet telephony. We propose to measure the quality of audiovisual signals based on digital watermarking. Our recent research achievements have demonstrated the feasibility and promise. We believe that we will be able to propose methods that can measure the quality of not only image and speech, but also video and audio; that can measure the effects of not only JPEG compression and MP3 compression, but also all kinds of common distortions to image, video, speech and audio; and that can measure the effects of not only individual distortion, but also combined multiple distortions. The envisaged quality measurement methods will significantly contribute to the video and audio broadcasting and telephony industries, and other areas such as forensic analysis and content authentication.