The objective comparison of recent video compression formats for visual weather prediction

This paper analyzes the coding efficiency of recent compression formats H.264, H.265 and AV1 for the visual weather prediction purpose. It compares the bitrate saving of these codecs using objective metrics. The analysis is done on 8 video sequences at Full HD and Ultra HD resolutions. We discovered, that bitstream saving of AV1 is approximately 50% higher than H.264 for both resolutions, 30% higher than H.265 encoded videos at Full HD and 20% higher than those at Ultra HD resolution. From the experimental results, we can also state that objective video quality is content dependent.