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FDIM: A Feature-distance-based Generic Video Quality Metric for Versatile Codecs

Jiayi Wang , Lichun Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhuang , Jiaqi Zhang , Lu Yu , Yin Zhao
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keywords video quality assessmentvideo quality metricneural video codecsfeature distancegeneralizationHDR videoSDR videoperceptual quality
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The pith

FDIM measures video quality through distances in a hybrid space of deep multi-scale features and hand-crafted features, producing scores that align with human ratings across codecs never seen during training.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Video compression now includes neural codecs whose artifacts vary with content and differ from those of older block-based methods, so quality metrics must handle both kinds without retraining. FDIM computes quality by comparing reference and compressed videos in feature spaces that combine learned deep representations at multiple scales with stable hand-crafted cues. The model is trained once on a large collection of videos encoded by a mix of traditional and neural codecs. When tested on separate collections that contain codecs and content outside the training set, the resulting scores track subjective human judgments closely for both standard and high dynamic range video. This approach matters because it lets researchers compare and refine any new codec using the same automatic metric instead of running fresh human studies for each format or architecture.

Core claim

FDIM employs a hybrid architecture that integrates deep and hand-crafted features. The deep feature component learns multi-scale representations to capture distortions ranging from structural and textural fidelity degradation to high-level semantic deviations, while the hand-crafted feature component provides stable complementary cues to improve overall generalization. We trained FDIM on a large-scale subjective quality assessment dataset consisting of over 16k video sequences encoded by traditional block-based hybrid video codecs and end-to-end perceptually optimized neural video codecs. Extensive experiments on ten SDR/HDR VQA datasets containing diverse, previously unseen codecs show that

What carries the argument

Hybrid feature-distance calculation that combines multi-scale deep representations with hand-crafted descriptors to quantify perceptual differences between a reference video and its compressed version.

If this is right

  • The same trained model can be applied directly to evaluate quality for any new neural video codec without retraining or fine-tuning.
  • FDIM produces usable scores for both standard dynamic range and high dynamic range video without separate versions of the metric.
  • Codec developers can use FDIM scores to guide optimization loops and benchmark competing algorithms on equal footing.
  • The method reduces the frequency of large-scale subjective tests when exploring new compression techniques or content types.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the hybrid distance remains stable, FDIM could be embedded inside encoders to adjust parameters on the fly for better perceptual results.
  • The same distance-based idea might transfer to quality assessment for still images or volumetric content by swapping in appropriate feature extractors.
  • Real-world streaming systems that switch between multiple codecs could adopt FDIM to monitor delivered quality uniformly.
  • Further tests on generative compression methods that produce artifacts outside the current training distribution would clarify the limits of the generalization.

Load-bearing premise

The specific deep and hand-crafted features chosen and the distances learned from the training videos will continue to match human perception when applied to entirely new codec designs and video contents.

What would settle it

Apply FDIM to videos encoded by a newly developed neural codec architecture absent from both the training set and the ten evaluation datasets, collect fresh subjective ratings from human viewers, and check whether the correlation between FDIM scores and those ratings falls substantially below the levels reported on the original test sets.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.24123 by Jiaqi Zhang, Jiayi Wang, Lichun Zhang, Lu Yu, Xiaoqi Zhuang, Yin Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of characteristic artifacts introduced by neural video codecs in comparison with traditional codecs. For each sequence, frames are uniformly view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of FDIM. The framework consists of a deep feature component and a complementary hand-crafted feature component based on VMAF view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: SROCC performance comparison across different dataset-codec view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Performance of FDIM(Deep) with different scales of training data view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of multi-scale features H˜ (s,t) . For each scale, feature maps are averaged along the channel dimension, normalized to [0, 1], and upsampled to the input resolution for overlay visualization. We report two scores for FDIM: the raw output score and a linearly mapped score using the dataset MOS scale, which facilitates observing the deviation from MOS. 0 10 20 30 40 50 Inference Time (s) on 10… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of model performance (average SROCC on five SDR view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Video technology is advancing toward Ultra High Definition (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR), which intensifies the need for higher compression efficiency for these high-specification videos. Beyond advances in traditional codecs, neural video codecs (NVCs) have attracted significant research attention and have evolved rapidly over the past few years. The coding artifacts of NVCs often exhibit content-varying and generative characteristics, which differ from those of conventional codecs and are challenging for traditional video quality assessment (VQA) methods to capture. Therefore, VQA metrics are required to generalize across different codecs, content types, and dynamic ranges to better support video codec research and evaluation. In this paper, we propose FDIM, a feature-distance-based generic video quality metric for both traditional and neural video codecs across SDR and HDR formats. FDIM employs a hybrid architecture that integrates deep and hand-crafted features. The deep feature component learns multi-scale representations to capture distortions ranging from structural and textural fidelity degradation to high-level semantic deviations, while the hand-crafted feature component provides stable complementary cues to improve overall generalization. We trained FDIM on a large-scale subjective quality assessment dataset (DCVQA) consisting of over 16k video sequences encoded by traditional block-based hybrid video codecs and end-to-end perceptually optimized neural video codecs. Extensive experiments on ten SDR/HDR VQA datasets containing diverse, previously unseen codecs demonstrate that FDIM achieves strong generalization and high correlation with subjective assessment. The source code for FDIM and the DCVQA validation set will be released at https://github.com/MCL-ZJU/FDIM.

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Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes FDIM, a hybrid feature-distance-based video quality metric for traditional and neural video codecs across SDR and HDR. It combines multi-scale deep features (capturing structural, textural, and semantic distortions) with hand-crafted features for complementary cues, trained supervised on the large DCVQA dataset (>16k sequences from block-based and end-to-end neural codecs). Extensive tests on ten held-out SDR/HDR VQA datasets with previously unseen codecs are reported to show strong generalization and high correlation with subjective scores; code and DCVQA validation set will be released.

Significance. If the reported generalization holds under scrutiny, FDIM would address a timely need for versatile VQA tools that handle generative artifacts from neural codecs alongside conventional ones. The hybrid architecture, scale of the DCVQA training set, and planned public release of code plus validation data are concrete strengths that support reproducibility and further research in codec evaluation.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experiments and Results): The central generalization claim relies on performance across ten held-out datasets, yet the manuscript provides no ablation isolating the contribution of the hand-crafted feature component versus deep features alone (or versus a pure deep baseline). Without these controls it remains unclear whether the hybrid design is load-bearing for the reported gains on unseen codecs.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Hybrid Feature Fusion): The fusion mechanism for deep and hand-crafted distances is described at a high level but lacks explicit equations or pseudocode for the weighting scheme and training objective. This makes it difficult to assess whether the reported robustness stems from the architecture or from post-hoc tuning on DCVQA subjective scores.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: Key quantitative results (e.g., average PLCC/SROCC across the ten datasets) are omitted; adding the headline numbers would immediately strengthen the summary of the generalization claim.
  2. [§2] §2 (Related Work): Several recent neural codec VQA papers are cited, but the discussion does not explicitly contrast FDIM's feature-distance approach with recent no-reference or full-reference neural metrics; a short comparative table would improve context.
  3. [Figure 3] Figure 3 and Table 4: Axis labels and legend entries are too small for readability in print; increasing font size and adding error bars or confidence intervals on correlation plots would aid interpretation.
  4. [§5] §5 (Conclusion): The limitations paragraph mentions content dependence but does not discuss potential failure modes on extreme HDR content or very low-bitrate neural codecs; expanding this would be useful.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the positive summary, recognition of the timely need for versatile VQA metrics, and the recommendation of minor revision. We address each major comment below and will update the manuscript accordingly to strengthen clarity and evidence.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments and Results): The central generalization claim relies on performance across ten held-out datasets, yet the manuscript provides no ablation isolating the contribution of the hand-crafted feature component versus deep features alone (or versus a pure deep baseline). Without these controls it remains unclear whether the hybrid design is load-bearing for the reported gains on unseen codecs.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation would strengthen the evidence for the hybrid design. The original manuscript reported the full FDIM performance on the ten held-out datasets but did not include component-wise ablations. In the revised version we will add a new ablation subsection (in §4) that compares (i) the complete hybrid FDIM, (ii) a deep-features-only variant, and (iii) a hand-crafted-features-only baseline, all trained and evaluated under identical conditions on the same held-out sets. This will directly quantify the incremental benefit of the hybrid fusion for generalization across unseen codecs. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Hybrid Feature Fusion): The fusion mechanism for deep and hand-crafted distances is described at a high level but lacks explicit equations or pseudocode for the weighting scheme and training objective. This makes it difficult to assess whether the reported robustness stems from the architecture or from post-hoc tuning on DCVQA subjective scores.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the description in §3.2 was kept at a high level. In the revised manuscript we will expand this section with (a) explicit equations defining the per-scale deep-feature distances, the hand-crafted distance terms, and the learned fusion weights; (b) the composite training objective (including the regression loss and any regularization terms); and (c) pseudocode for the end-to-end training and inference pipeline. These additions will make the architecture and training procedure fully reproducible and will clarify that the weighting is learned jointly rather than tuned post-hoc. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper presents FDIM as a supervised hybrid feature-distance metric trained on the DCVQA subjective dataset and evaluated for generalization on ten held-out SDR/HDR datasets with unseen codecs. No derivation chain, equations, or first-principles claims are advanced that reduce by construction to the training inputs or prior self-citations. The performance claims rest on empirical cross-dataset correlations rather than any self-definitional, fitted-prediction, or uniqueness-imported tautology. This is the expected non-circular outcome for a data-driven VQA metric paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on fitted model parameters from supervised training and the domain assumption that feature-space distances serve as a proxy for perceived quality; no new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • deep feature extractor parameters
    Weights of the multi-scale deep network trained end-to-end on DCVQA subjective scores to minimize prediction error.
  • hybrid fusion weights
    Parameters that combine deep and hand-crafted feature distances, fitted during training.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Distances in learned deep feature spaces and hand-crafted feature spaces correlate monotonically with human-perceived video quality degradation.
    Invoked as the justification for using feature distance as the quality metric instead of pixel-level or other direct measures.

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