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Toward A Practical Perceptual Video Quality Metric

6 Jun 2016Netflix Technology Blog 2016 6archive 2025-07-28

Netflix

At Netflix we care about video quality, and we care about measuring video quality accurately at scale. Our method, Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF), seeks to reflect the viewer’s perception of our streaming quality. We are open-sourcing this tool and invite the research community to collaborate with us on this important project.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061) KLCC 0.809 #1 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061) PLCC 0.952 #1 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061) SRCC 0.942 #1 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v062) KLCC 0.809 #2 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v062) PLCC 0.950 #2 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v062) SRCC 0.942 #2 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v063) KLCC 0.809 #3 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v063) PLCC 0.950 #3 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v063) SRCC 0.942 #3 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061_neg) KLCC 0.765 #5 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061_neg) PLCC 0.941 #5 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Video Quality Assessment MSU FR VQA Database VMAF Y (v061_neg) SRCC 0.914 #5 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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