Absolute Category Rating (ACR) is a test method used in
quality
Quality may refer to:
Concepts
*Quality (business), the ''non-inferiority'' or ''superiority'' of something
*Quality (philosophy), an attribute or a property
*Quality (physics), in response theory
*Energy quality, used in various science discipli ...
tests.
The levels of the scale are, sorted by quality in decreasing order:
* Excellent
* Good
* Fair
* Poor
* Bad
In this method, a single test condition (generally an image or a video sequence) is presented to the viewers once only. They should then give a quality rating on an ACR scale. Test conditions should be presented in a random order per test person.
The ACR scale is evaluated based on numbers that are assigned to the individual items, where ''Excellent'' equals to 5 and ''Bad'' equals to 1. The average numeric score over all experiment participants, for each test condition that was shown, is called the
mean opinion score Mean opinion score (MOS) is a measure used in the domain of Quality of Experience and telecommunications engineering, representing overall quality of a stimulus or system. It is the arithmetic mean over all individual "values on a predefined scale t ...
.
The ACR scale is also used for telephony voice quality to give a mean opinion score.
See also
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Mean opinion score Mean opinion score (MOS) is a measure used in the domain of Quality of Experience and telecommunications engineering, representing overall quality of a stimulus or system. It is the arithmetic mean over all individual "values on a predefined scale t ...
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Subjective video quality
Subjective video quality is video quality as experienced by humans. It is concerned with how video is perceived by a viewer (also called "observer" or "subject") and designates their opinion on a particular video sequence. It is related to the fiel ...
References
External links
Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG)
Film and video technology
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