MSU Super-Resolution for Video Compression Benchmark
Discover SR methods for compressed videos and choose the best model to use with your codec
Egor Sklyarov
Diverse dataset
- H.264, H.265, H.266, AV1, AVS3 codec standards
- More than 260 test videos
- 6 different bitrates
Various charts
- Visual comparison for more than
80 SR+codec pairs - RD curves and bar charts
for 5 objective metrics - SR+codec pairs ranked by BSQ-rate
Extensive report
- 80+ pages with different plots
- 15 SOTA SR methods
and 6 objective metrics - Extensive subjective comparison
with 5300+ valid participants - Powered by Subjectify.us

The pipeline of our benchmark
What’s new
- 21.07.2022 Added SR codecs to the benchmark. Added MDTVSFA correlation to the correlation chart.
- 12.04.2022 Uploaded the results of extensive subjective comparison. See “Subjective score” in Charts section.
- 25.03.2022 Added VRT, BasicVSR, RBPN, and COMISR. Updated Leaderboards and Visualizations sections.
- 14.03.2022 Uploaded new dataset. Updated the Methodology.
- 26.10.2021 Updated the Methodology.
- 12.10.2021 Published October Report. Added 2 new videos to the dataset. Updated Charts section and Visualizations.
- 28.09.2021 Improved the Leaderboards section to make it more user-friendly, updated the Methodology and added ERQAv1.1 metric.
- 21.09.2021 Added 2 new videos to the dataset, new plots to the Charts section, and new Visualizations.
- 14.09.2021 Public beta-version Release.
- 31.08.2021 Alpha-version Release.
Charts
In this section, you can see RD curves, which show the bitrate/quality distribution of each SR+codec pair, and bar charts, which show the BSQ-rate calculated for objective metrics and subjective scores.
Read about the participants here.
You can see the information about codecs in the methodology.
Metrics:
- Subjective score — more details
- ERQAv2.0 — more details
- Y-PSNR — more details
- Y-MS-SSIM — more details
- Y-VMAF — more details
- LPIPS — more details
Charts with metrics
You can choose the test sequence, the codec that was used to compress it, and the metric.
If BSQ-rate of any method equals 0, then this method should be considered much better than reference codec (codec with no SR).
Highlight the plot region where you want to zoom in.
Video: Codec: Metric:
Correlation of metrics with subjective assessment
We calculated objective metrics on the crops used for subjective comparison and calculated a correlation between the subjective and objective results. Below you can see the average correlation of metrics over all test cases.
* ERQA-MDTVSFA is calculated by multiplying MDTVSFA and ERQA values over the video.
Speed/BSQ-rate trade-off
Read about Frames per Second (FPS) calculation here. Read about BSQ-rate over Subjective score here.
Visualization
In this section, you can choose the sequence, see a cropped part of a frame from it, shifted Y-PSNR visualization, and ERQAv2.0 Visualization for this crop. For shifted Y-PSNR we find the optimal shift for Y-PSNR and apply MSU VQMT PSNR to frames with this shift. See the methodology for more information.
Video: Codec: Approximate bitrate:
Model 1: Model 2: Model 3:
Drag a red rectangle to the area that you want to see zoomed-in
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Leaderboards
SR+codec pairs leaderboard
The table below shows a comparison of all pairs of Super-Resolution algorithms and codecs.
Each column shows BSQ-rate over a specific metric. You can sort the table by any column.
All methods that took part in subjective comparison are ranked by BSQ-rate over subjective score. Other methods are ranked by BSQ-rate over ERQA.
If BSQ-rate of any method equals 0, then this method should be considered much better than reference codec.
If BSQ-rate of any method is striving to eternity (marked as '∞'), then this method should be considered much worse than reference codec.
"TBP" means that this SR+codec pair did not take part in subjective comparison.
Video:
Rank | SR + codec | Y-VMAF | ERQAv2.0 | Y-PSNR | Y-MS-SSIM | LPIPS |
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SR codecs
You can find information about SR codecs on the participants page.
You can choose the test sequence and the metric.
Highlight the plot region where you want to zoom in.
Video: Metric:
SR+codec Benchmark Roadmap
Feature | What it achieves | Release date |
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More test sequences | We will extend our dataset to make it more diverse and cover more use cases. We expect it to contain 9×6×5=270 Full HD videos. |
14.03.2022 |
Extensive subjective comparison |
We plan to conduct a bigger subjective comparison for all codecs to get a more accurate ranking for more SR+codec pairs. The subjective comparison with that many video pairs will be very expensive. If you want to support our benchmark, please contact us: sr-codecs-benchmark@videoprocessing.ai |
12.04.2022 |
More state-of-the-art Super-Resolution methods |
New Super-Resolution methods are constantly being developed. We will add new qualitative SR methods to our benchmark as they appear. We also expect developers to submit their methods to us. You can submit your method here. |
Q4 2022 |
Enterprise report | We will compile an enterprise report with more test sequences and different objective and subjective metrics. You can see the example in the Report section. |
Q1 2023 |
A new metric to measure compressed video restoration quality |
Subjective comparison showed that the most popular video quality metrics — PSNR and SSIM — are not applicable to the Super-Resolution task. We are researching our metric for compressed video restoration quality that will correlate well with subjective assessment. |
Q1 2023 |
“Real-time” and “restoration” categories |
Some Super-Resolution models work faster than others, while slow methods can achieve results of much better quality. We plan to divide the leaderboard of our benchmark into 2 categories:
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Q2 2023 |
Submit your method
Verify your method’s ability to restore compressed videos and compare it with other algorithms.
You can go to the page with information about other participants.
1. Download input data |
Download low-resolution input videos as sequences of frames in PNG format.
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2. Apply your algorithm |
Apply your Super-Resolution algorithm to upscale frames to 1920×1080 resolution. You can also send us the code of your method or the executable file with the instructions on how to run it and we will run it ourselves. |
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3. Send us result |
Send us an email to sr-codecs-benchmark@videoprocessing.ai
with the following information:
to the cloud drive)
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You can verify the results of current participants or estimate the perfomance of your method on public samples of our dataset. Just send an email to sr-codecs-benchmark@videoprocessing.ai with a request to share them with you.
Our policy:
- We won't publish the results of your method without your permission.
- We share only public samples of our dataset as it is private.
Download the Report
Videos used in the report:
- The Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association by SAVIAN
- First Day by Outside Adventure Media
Acknowledgements:
- Subjective comparison was supported by Toloka Research Grants Program.
Contact Us
For questions and propositions, please contact us: sr-codecs-benchmark@videoprocessing.ai
You can subscribe to updates on our benchmark:
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