Moscow State’s Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin Talks Codecs, Metrics, and Video Quality

Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin is the Head of the Moscow State University Graphics and Media Lab and one of my favorite colleagues in the streaming quality space. His group produces the Video Quality Measurement Tool (VQMT) that I use almost every day and publishes many codec studies that compare the latest and greatest with comprehensive, and real-world testing.

Dr. Vatolin was one of the first to discover that VMAF was hackable, and because his group also runs the subjectify.us service, a crowd-sourced subjective evaluation platform, he has unparalleled data regarding how the various video quality metrics correlate with subjective evaluations.

Recently, Dr. Vatolin agreed to be interviewed in Streaming Media Magazine, commenting on a variety of topics, including the accuracy of objective metrics and the status of VMAF hacking. You can read the interview here.

About Jan Ozer

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I help streaming and video technology companies solve complex technical and market-facing problems in practical business terms. Engagements range from fixed-scope audits and codec strategy reviews to product testing and technical content that helps customers, prospects, and internal teams connect technical performance to business outcomes. I am a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, writing about codecs and encoding tools. I have written multiple authoritative books on video encoding, including Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video (https://amzn.to/3kV6R1j) and Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less (https://amzn.to/3ZJih7e). I have multiple courses relating to streaming media production, all available at https://bit.ly/slc_courses.

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