Measure video and image quality with a free software that supports over 300 formats and 20 objective metrics including GPU accelerated SSIM-based metrics such as VMAF, NIQE, PSNR, MSU Blurring/Blocking, MSAD, and MS-SSIM.
If you're looking for a free program to measure video quality, you might want to consider MSU VQMT. This software has a lot of features that make it suitable for objective and subjective video quality measurements. It supports 19 objective metrics and 5 plugins including standard metrics (VMAF, NIQE, PSNR, MSAD, SSIM, VQM, etc.) and modern metrics with good subjective quality correlation (MS-SSIM, 3-SSIM). Additionally, MSU VQMT supports most basic video and image formats including HDR with up to 16-bit depth and floating point samples – such as AVI, YUV & Y4M (YUV, YV12, UYVY, etc.), BMP, MOV, VOB, WMV, and others.
One unique feature of the program is the ability to generate visualization videos for each specified metric. This video contains visual information about metric values in each pixel of the frame, allowing you to easily judge the video quality nature. Moreover, MSU VQMT has a high metrics calculation speed, thanks to its multi-core processors support, MMX, SSE and OpenMP optimizations, and GPU accelerated SSIM-based metrics implementation.
The software has a comparative analysis feature that enables you to compare three files at a time (or more with CLI interface, PRO version only) and ROI support that allows metric calculation for a specified region of the frame (Region of Interest, ROI). You can use MSU VQMT in GUI and batch processing modes since it consists of GUI and command line tools.
Moreover, the software comes with a Plugins Interface feature that enables you to develop your video quality metric via the plugin mechanism. Results are stored in universal CSV format, and the professional version of VQMT supports HD resolution. If you're interested in open-source plugins, they are also available, which can be used as a starting point for custom video metric. The software is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and you can get news and updates from the MSU VQMT homepage or their LinkedIn group. Overall, MSU VQMT is an excellent free program for video quality measurements with a lot of features to offer.
One unique feature of the program is the ability to generate visualization videos for each specified metric. This video contains visual information about metric values in each pixel of the frame, allowing you to easily judge the video quality nature. Moreover, MSU VQMT has a high metrics calculation speed, thanks to its multi-core processors support, MMX, SSE and OpenMP optimizations, and GPU accelerated SSIM-based metrics implementation.
The software has a comparative analysis feature that enables you to compare three files at a time (or more with CLI interface, PRO version only) and ROI support that allows metric calculation for a specified region of the frame (Region of Interest, ROI). You can use MSU VQMT in GUI and batch processing modes since it consists of GUI and command line tools.
Moreover, the software comes with a Plugins Interface feature that enables you to develop your video quality metric via the plugin mechanism. Results are stored in universal CSV format, and the professional version of VQMT supports HD resolution. If you're interested in open-source plugins, they are also available, which can be used as a starting point for custom video metric. The software is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and you can get news and updates from the MSU VQMT homepage or their LinkedIn group. Overall, MSU VQMT is an excellent free program for video quality measurements with a lot of features to offer.
What's New
Version 11.1: 1400+ new RAW formats, actual VMAF support, 4 new metrics and others