Practical Quality Assessment for Digitized Film Content
The European research project CineXPRES is focusing on improving the digitization, preservation, and restoration workflows for old film content. A central topic in this project is an attempt to define a practical quality assessment for digitized film content. The authors believe that there is no absolute measure of quality, but instead only measures dedicated to specific decision processes. To this end, three image quality estimators are defined, providing efficient tools in various situations that every archivist will have to face in the future: a multidimensional objective quality measure consisting of a collection of degradation estimators, a conditional subjective quality estimator taking the display into account, and a conditional objective quality estimator considering the ease of restoring content. This paper describes the computation of these estimators and reviews a few practical situations in which they provide answers to complex decision-making situations.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2014-01
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/j18368XY