Hardware friendly fixed-point approximations of video quality metrics

A method, comprising:

• configuring an interface of an application-specific integrated circuit to receive pixel data of a frame of a video being analyzed for quality metric determination;
• and
• configuring a kernel of the application-specific integrated circuit to compute a video quality metric for the received pixel data using a fixed-point hardware approximation of a floating-point based algorithm associated with the video quality metric.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• configuring an interface of an application-specific integrated circuit to receive pixel data of a frame of a video being analyzed for quality metric determination;
• and
• configuring a kernel of the application-specific integrated circuit to compute a video quality metric for the received pixel data using a fixed-point hardware approximation of a floating-point based algorithm associated with the video quality metric.