Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Banding Artifacts on Compressed Videos (CBAND)

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2025 paper presenting the CBAND no-reference banding metric and the LIVE-YT-Banding dataset (160 AV1-encoded videos, 7,200 opinions), usable as a differentiable debanding loss.

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