This Technical Report has been developed as one of a group of Technical Reports designed to meet the industry need for documentation of video quality metrics utilizing the Full Reference technique. Most full reference methods require that the degraded video be normalized in gain and spatial/temporal parameters prior to calculating the video quality algorithm. This Technical Report describes the reasons for including normalization in video quality metrics and methods that may be used for normalization. Accuracy and cross calibration of video quality metrics are defined in T1.TR.72-2001.
