Abstract
This paper compares the effectiveness of different projections for different 360-degree videos and codecs, including AV1, HEVC, VP9, and AV. Content for 360 video is especially challenging because using codecs on reprojections magnifies video-stream errors. For this reason, we tested different projections to determine their stability over different encodings. Our results came from performance measurements using end-to-end metrics such as PSNR, SSIM and VMAF as well as subjective assessment of static viewports.
Publisher
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
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