| RAVA | region-based average video quality assessment |
| NR-IQA | no-reference image quality assessment |
| FR | full reference |
| NIMA | neural image assessment |
| NR | no-reference |
| PEVQ | perceptual evaluation of video quality |
| RR | reduced reference |
| VQuad-HD | objective perceptual multimedia video quality measurement of HDTV |
| VQA | video quality assessment |
| PEXQ | perceptual quality by OPTICOM, a software name |
| IQA | image quality assessment |
| ANN | artificial neural network |
| SSIM | structural similarity |
| PSD | power spectral density |
| VSSIM | video structural similarity |
| PVQA | perceptual video quality assessment |
| HVS | human visual system |
| VQA | video quality metric |
| PSNR | peak signal-to-noise ratio |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| PSNR-HVS | PSNR based on HVS |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| PSNR-HVS-M | PSNR based on between-coefficient contrast masking |
| VSFA | quality assessment of in-the-wild videos |
| fps | frames per second |
| CRF | constant rate factor |
| PCC | Pearson’s (linear) correlation coefficient |
| SCC | Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient |