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Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-09-28 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. …repository are a sight to behold, though. The same slopper posted an aggressive response to my PR: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf/pull/1586
    comment by anematode · 2026-10-18 · in Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
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    Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
    story by tosh · 2026-10-18 · 8 comments
  3. …a nice little python GUI wrapper for ab-av1 [3]. [1] - https://github.com/alexheretic/ab-av1 [2] - https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf [3] - https://github.com/Loufe/AB-AV1-GUI
    comment by loufe · 2025-12-21 · in What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers
  4. Netflix did VMAF for this: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf It checks a reference video against an encoded video and returns a score representing how close the encoded video appears to the original from a human perspective.
    comment by cedricd · 2024-02-20 · in Extreme video compression with prediction using pre-trainded diffusion models
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    Netflix/VMAF – Release v3.0.0
    story by dreampeppers99 · 2023-12-19 · 0 comments
  6. …"wtf is vmaf?!" Turns out it's $NFLXs OSS automated encoding quality assessment tool. Pretty cool! https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf p.s. zanny, nice casual stealth drop you did there ;)
    comment by jaytaylor · 2022-03-18 · in Dav1d, fast AV1 decoder, version 1.0
  7. …distortion, etc. I think for AV1 they're using VMAF too, which is an actual video quality metric ( https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf ).
    comment by slhck · 2021-07-12 · in Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
  8. They lead in several areas such as video quality measurement (VMAF https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf ), robustness (Chaos Monkey https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ ), video compression optimization (…
    comment by drdebug · 2020-09-28 · in Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries