What's new in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 14.1 r12839
Jul 15, 2022
- Main features:
- Python wrapper as pip package msu_vqmt
- New color policy: specifying exact colorspace for metric calculation
- Modern decoders from FFmpeg 5
- Better Linux support - more systems supported
- Free policy updated - no resolution limitation
- Other features:
- New VQMT logo
- VQMT SDK updated
- Specifying custom file path for visualization
- More json output
- Fixed color components order in GUI
- Bugfixes
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 13.1 r12727 (Jun 1, 2021)
- VMAF now supports "No enhancement gain" (NEG) features
- VMAF calculation on CPU — 1.5 times faster
- VMAF supports JSON models
- VMAF legacy mode
- Optimization of OpenCL metrics: 1-4 times faster than 13.0
- PIPE mode: read any numbers of inputs from arbitrary commands output
- Bugfix: settings were not restored
- Bugfix: rebuilding index each time
- Bugfix: flood of FFmpeg messages
- Bugfix: some formats supports
- Bugfix: temporal metrics in Preview
- Bugfix: crashes
- Other bugfixes
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 12.1 r12662 (Apr 21, 2021)
- Main features:
- VMAF now supports OpenCL (~40 fps on FullHD on tested devices)
- VQMT now can be configured with JSON-file instead of command line
- Online help for VQMT
- Support for non-binary masks
- Masks:
- Mask-support fixed and refactored
- Support the simple setting of rectangular masks
- Native mask support in some metrics (PSNR, Delta, MSE, MSAD, SSIM-Fast, SSIM-Precise, SSIM-OpenCL, MSSSIM-Precise, VMAF, VMAF-OpenCL, NIQE)
- Mask logging
- Performance:
- "Lazy" metrics' loading, VQMT initialization speedup.
- New metrics:
- Timeshift
- Visualization in metrics:
- VMAF
- Other:
- JSON-configuration from STDIN and command line
- Fixed AviSynth on Windows
- Other bugfixes
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 13.0 r12655 Beta (Mar 4, 2021)
- FFmpeg 4 in VQMT - improved navigation and format support
- Support for AV1
- NIQE now supports OpenCL (~40 fps on FullHD on tested devices)
- Native support for EXR files
- Colorspaces and color standards support in VQMT
- Visualization pallets and gamma correction
- Visualization & Preview:
- Support for 11 pallets for metrics visualization
- Support gamma correction for metrics visualization
- Turning visualization parameters right in Preview window
- New visualization formats: PNG, JPEG, BMP, fixed H264
- Visualization video will be saved with correct FPS
- Preview by channel, any colorspace
- Separate colorspace setup for render and values
- Colorspaces:
- Fixed L-LUV metrics
- Conversion between different colorspaces and models
- Support for CIE XYZ, CIR LUV, ICtCp, LMS, Perceptual uniform encoding
- Manually specifying input file colorspace and automatic detection
- Manually specifying sample range for floating-point input files
- Setting of display maximum luminance, that affects GDR-metrics calculation
- New metrics:
- HDR VQM
- HDR PSNR
- HDR SSIM
- HDR MS-SSIM
- Delta ICtCp
- Other:
- Using arbitrary external codec as input
- VQMT don't save the index to the input file folder anymore
- Different verbosity levels
- Setting implicit output CSV file path
- New command line arguments: -cs, -csv-default-file, -csv-file, -display-luminance, -float-range, -vis-colormap, -vis-gamma
- Bugfixes in online metrics and online visualization
- Oher bugfixes:
- Known issues:
- Speed of SSIM metrics on OpenCL could be slower
- Results after RGB → YUV conversion may differ from VQMT 12 ones
- Meaning of L-LUV channel changed, results for L colorspace will differ from VQMT 12 ones
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 11.1 r12299 (May 31, 2019)
- Comparison on different resolution (geometry correction)
- New metrics (SI, TI)
- Saving bitrates
- And bugfixes
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 11.0 r12207 (Feb 21, 2019)
- Support for 1400+ new RAW formats
- Support for standard names for RAW formats
- Support new RGB ↔ YUV tables
- Support HDR videos and more HDR image formats: 3 more times video formats now can be lossless
- Result table with metric values inside VQMT
- Automatic command-line generation from GUI
- Plot of bitrate
- Actual VMAF support: modern models, 4k models, confidence intervals
- New blurring metric
- New Noise Estimation metric
- Linux command line considerably improved
- Better performance on some cases
- New quality control standards
- Measurement on subsampled U and V
- Latest CUDA engine
- And bugfixes
- Only x64-bit edition from this version
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 10.1 r11969 (Jul 3, 2018)
- Support of perspective and modern VMAF metric. Many settings guarantee full metric support.
- Now it's possible to determine quality even without a reference via new NIQE metric.
- Improved usability: Drag & Drop files and changing of file order by single click.
- The -stdin parameter allows you to transmit data directly from the output of another program, such as FFmpeg, without saving multi-gigabyte files. Acceleration and simplification (PRO and DEMO only)
- New formats with support for HDR: extended support for TIFF and PXM family. (HDR only in PRO and DEMO)
- Better usability of command line - a lot of improvements while maintaining full backward compatibility (PRO and DEMO only)
- Built-in profiler. It will show which operations take the most time and allow you to accurately measure the performance of VQMT (PRO and DEMO only)
- Better JSON output
- TIFF as format for bad frames
- More functions in Linux version: more metrics, plugins support, OpenCL support (PRO and DEMO only)
- And bugfixes
- Now we recommend specifying original input using new key '-orig' instead of traditional '-in'
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 10.0 r11759 Beta (Aug 17, 2017)
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 8.0 Beta (Oct 17, 2016)
- Added new visualization methods: Lossless Video, Lossy Video and TIFF files.
- Preview window replaced.
- Full-screen preview, display selection.
- Side-by-side preview.
- Inspecting visualization inside VQMT.
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 7.1 (Oct 17, 2016)
- Crashes fixed.
- Improved command line output in PRO version.
- Preview display fix.
- Seeking and offsetting YUV files fixed.
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 3.0 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Added stSSIM metric
- Added “.y4m” raw video internal support
- Added Autoupdate feature for free version (our PRO customers receive updates automatically)
- Added GPU realization for SSIM-based metrics (SSIM, 3-SSIM, MS-SSIM. Requires CUDA-capable device. See metrics info page for additional info)
- Added subjective comparison for the most popular metrics (see metrics info)
- Added 64-bit version of MSU VQMT (up to 10% speedup)
- Program crashes due memory lack when -metr ALL specified with large (i.e. 1280x720) video frames.
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.7.3 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Fixed bug with MSSIM metric causing source frame change
- Fixed some metrics inaccuracy causing different metric values by enabling\disabling visualization
- Program crashes due memory lack when -metr ALL specified with large (i.e. 1280x720) video frames
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.7.2 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Fixed bug causing incorrect metric values, when using 3SSIM and MSSSIM simultaneously
- Fixed bug causing incorrect PSNR metric values in CSV files
- Fixed bug causing no metric calculation for large (>4gb) files
- Not existing directory specified in "-cod" parameter will be created now and processing will not cancel.
- Program crashes due memory lack when -metr ALL specified with large (i.e. 1280x720) video frames
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.7.1 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Fixed bug in CVS file generation. Sometimes first frame metric value was empty
- Fixed bug causing incorrect MSE metric values after calculating SSIM metric
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.7 (May 25, 2010)
- Vista & Windows 7 support
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.01 Beta (Apr 30, 2009)
- New features implimentation
New in MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 1.0 (May 18, 2006)
- More YUV types are supported, interface and visualization reworked, bugfixing