Meta Platforms, Inc.
QUALITY METRICS ACCELERATOR WITH INLINE SCALERS

Abstract:

A scalable hardware accelerator configured to compute video quality metrics is disclosed. In some embodiments, an accelerator for video quality metrics comprises an application-specific integrated circuit that includes a first scaling unit configured to scale a resolution of at least a portion of a reference frame of a video, a second scaling unit configured to scale a resolution of at least a portion of a distorted frame of a transcoded version of the video, and a kernel configured to compute a video quality metric for the distorted frame with respect to the reference frame using at least a first scaled output of the first scaling unit or a second scaled output of the second scaling unit.