Collection of VMAF Resources

A colleague asked for some resources relating to VMAF. Rather than answer in an email I thought I would create a post around it. Some of these are from Netflix, most from me (Jan Ozer). I’ve broken the items into three groups; Computing VMAF, Using VMAF, and About VMAF.

I hope you find this collection useful.

Computing VMAF

My default way to compute VMAF is with the Moscow State University Video Quality Measurement Tool. Here’s a video that shows how and the latest improvements in version 12.

Installing and Using Netflix VMAF-Master, Streaming Learning Center, March 2019,

Compute VMAF Using FFmpeg on Windows, Streaming Learning Center, November 2019.

Using VMAF

Finding the Just Noticeable Difference in VMAF, LinkedIn, September 2017 (by Jan Ozer).

Mapping SSIM and VMAF Scores to Subjective Rating, Streaming Learning Center, July 2015.

Best Practices for Netflix’s VMAF Metric, Streaming Learning Center, November 2018. Useful backgrounder for how to compute and use VMAF scores.

Using VMAF, Netflix’s Video Encoding Metric to Measure QoE (Video below). From NAB 2019.

VMAF: A Short Explainer on Streaming Quality, Use Journal, May 2019.

About VMAF

Toward A Practical Perceptual Video Quality Metric, Medium, June 6, 2016.  The original article from Netflix.

Netflix Introduces New Quality Metric, Streaming Learning Center, June 2016.  My article on what VMAF is and why it matters.

VMAF: The Journey Continues, Medium, October 2018. Lots of good info on what VMAF does and doesn’t do and how to use it.

VMAF: The Journey Continues (from Streaming Media West, 2018).

 

For more information on computing and using video quality metrics, I have a video course with over 3 hours of video instruction. For more on the course, click the course image below, or click here.

About Jan Ozer

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I help companies train new technical hires in streaming media-related positions; I also help companies optimize their codec selections and encoding stacks and evaluate new encoders and codecs. 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. I currently work as www.netint.com as a Senior Director in Marketing.

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