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Paul Wawerek-López

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arXiv2026

Perceptually-Weighted Video Quality Metric for Asymmetric Encoded Sports Videos

Objective video quality metrics commonly assume uniform spatial attention, an assumption that conflicts with the selective nature of human visual perception, particularly in sports videos. Here, allocating more bits for salient regions through semantic encoding can lead to significant bitrate savings. We present a Perceptually-Weighted Video Quality Metric (PW-VQM), a full-reference metric that accounts for the unequal perceptual importance of spatial regions and therefore targets quality evaluation for asymmetrically encoded content. SSIM maps computed in a multiscale wavelet domain are weighted by differentiating between foreground and background regions. Perceptually salient foreground regions are identified by combining open-vocabulary object detection with optical flow analysis, and are assigned higher weight during quality aggregation. Evaluated on sports video content, PW-VQM achieves a Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient of 0.9511, outperforming established metrics including SSIM, VMAF, FUNQUE, and LPIPS. An ablation study confirms the individual contributions of the components of the perceptual weighting.

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arXiv2025

OSLO-IC: On-the-Sphere Learned Omnidirectional Image Compression with Attention Modules and Spatial Context

Developing effective 360-degree (spherical) image compression techniques is crucial for technologies like virtual reality and automated driving. This paper advances the state-of-the-art in on-the-sphere learning (OSLO) for omnidirectional image compression framework by proposing spherical attention modules, residual blocks, and a spatial autoregressive context model. These improvements achieve a 23.1% bit rate reduction in terms of WS-PSNR BD rate. Additionally, we introduce a spherical transposed convolution operator for upsampling, which reduces trainable parameters by a factor of four compared to the pixel shuffling used in the OSLO framework, while maintaining similar compression performance. Therefore, in total, our proposed method offers significant rate savings with a smaller architecture and can be applied to any spherical convolutional application.

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