HEVC ENCODER AUTOMATED TEST

This work has the objective is help researchers and developers in the test steps of HEVC encoder development process.

Require

To compile correctly, the tool requires the following libraries that can be installed via apt-get.

Install the C ++ compiler using the following command

$sudo apt-get install build-essential

Install the Boots and GNUPlot library, needed to generate the graphics.

$sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev gnuplot

Finally, install the Make program, which will do all the work of calling the appropriate compiler for each file, create the necessary directories, unpack the test files, and link each file with its header.

$sudo apt-get install make

How use

In the directory "codec_test_tool", usu the make command for generate the executable program.

$make

Run the binary program using the ./bin/EncoderTest and the parameters of the test.

./bin/EncoderTest -mod 1 -thr 2 -f 300 -fr 30 -eva test/encoder/eva -ref test/encoder/ref -vin 1 test/vin/video.yuv -vout test/vout/ -cfg 1 test/cfg/config.cfg -outl test/log/ -qp 4 22 27 32 37

Command	Description	Default values
-thr	Number of encoder instances running simultaneously*	2
-eva	Encoder to be evaluated	test/encoder/eva
-ref	Reference encoder	test/encoder/ref
-dec	Default decoder (use only to objective metrics)	test/decoder/dec
-vin	Number of videos followed by the input video sequences	1 test/vin/video.yuv
-outv	Output video path	test/vout/
-outl	Output log file path	test/log/
-cfg	Number of cfg files followed by the cfg path files	1 test/cfg/config.cfg
-f	Total frames used in test	130
-fr	Frame rate	30
-wdt	Video resolution width	352
-hgt	Video resolution height	288
-bdepth	Bit depth per color component	8
-subsamp	Chroma subsampling	4:2:0
-qp	Number of QP followed by the QPs	4 22 27 32 37
-bd	Bjontegaard metric.	true
-ssim	Structural Similarity Index metric.	false
-pwssim	Perceptual Weighting Structural Similarity Index metric.	false

*Check the number of CPU cores in your computer!.

If you use this project in your research please cite:

	@Article{barbosa18,
		  author = {José Raimundo Barbosa and Jean Felipe Fonseca de Oliveira and Carlos Danilo Miranda Regis and Ruan Delgado Gomes and Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar},
		  title = {A Test Automation Engine for the ITU-T/ISO-IEC Reference Video Encoders},
		  year = {2018}
	}