MSU Drop Frames Metric (DFM)

• Project, Ideas: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
• Implementation: Alexey Noskov
• Updating and additions: Sergey Grishin

Common description

DFM is made to calculate number of drop-frames in sequence.

Change Log

[!] — Known bug
[+] — New Feature
[*] — Other

Version 1.1
[*] Visualization bug fixed for non-stadard resolution video

Version 1.0
[+] First plugin release

Visualization

Metric’s visualization difference of Y-planes between two consecutive frames + 128. So, grey color (128, 128, 128) means that brigtness of a pixel is the same as at the previous frame.

Plots

Metric’s plot is making after all measurements. “Zero” value means that current frame exist, “one” - that it is dropped. The resulting metric’s value is number of drop-frames.

Algorithm

For each frame difference with the previous one is calculating. Metric’s value is 1 if frames are identical, 0 otherwise.

Download

• Metric’s sources for VS 2013
• MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool
• License text for sources and binary files (LGPL)

Contacts

E-mail: video-measure@graphics.cs.msu.ru