SemABR: Measuring Video Semantic Fidelity with Multimodal LLMs for Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Conventional video metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, and VMAF measure visual distortion or perceptual quality, but they do not directly capture semantic preservation: whether compression retains a video's objects, actions, and temporal narrative. Existing Quality-of-Experience (QoE)-driven bitrate-selection and resource-allo...