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BBAND Index: A No-Reference Banding Artifact Predictor

arXiv 2002.11891 ↗First posted 27 Feb 2020eess.IV cs.CV cs.MMcited by 19

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Abstract (arXiv)

Banding artifact, or false contouring, is a common video compression impairment that tends to appear on large flat regions in encoded videos. These staircase-shaped color bands can be very noticeable in high-definition videos. Here we study this artifact, and propose a new distortion-specific no-reference video quality model for predicting banding artifacts, called the Blind BANding Detector (BBAND index). BBAND is inspired by human visual models. The proposed detector can generate a pixel-wise banding visibility map and output a banding severity score at both the frame and video levels. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art banding detection algorithms and delivers better consistency with subjective evaluations.

Key facts. Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 27 Feb 2020.

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  1. 2021RAPIQUE: Rapid and Accurate Video Quality Prediction of User Generated Contentcited by 100
  2. 2022Subjective Assessment of High Dynamic Range Videos Under Different Ambient Conditionscited by 12
  3. 2024CLIPVQA:Video Quality Assessment via CLIPcited by 11
  4. 2022FAVER: Blind Quality Prediction of Variable Frame Rate Videoscited by 10
  5. 2021CAMBI: Contrast-aware Multiscale Banding Indexcited by 9
  6. 2025Just Noticeable Difference for Large Multimodal Modelscited by 9
  7. 2023BAND-2k: Banding Artifact Noticeable Database for Banding Detection and Quality Assessmentcited by 5
  8. 2021Regression or Classification? New Methods to Evaluate No-Reference Picture and Video Quality Modelscited by 4
  9. 2025BrokenVideos: A Benchmark Dataset for Fine-Grained Artifact Localization in AI-Generated Videoscited by 4
  10. 2023Robust estimation of exposure ratios in multi-exposure image stackscited by 3
  11. 2023FS-BAND: A Frequency-Sensitive Banding Detectorcited by 3
  12. 2023BVI-Artefact: An Artefact Detection Benchmark Dataset for Streamed Videoscited by 3
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  2. 2024MVAD: A Multiple Visual Artifact Detector for Video Streamingcited by 2
  3. 2024Subjective and Objective Analysis of Indian Social Media Video Qualitycited by 1
  4. 2023Redistributing the Precision and Content in 3D-LUT-based Inverse Tone-mapping for HDR/WCG Displaycited by 0
  5. 2025Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Banding Artifacts on Compressed Videoscited by 0
  6. 2025Guiding WaveMamba with Frequency Maps for Image Debandingcited by 0
  7. 2025Towards Unified Video Quality Assessmentcited by 0