On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 the Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL) web site (www.cdvl.org) went live. The primary goal of this web site is to provide high quality uncompressed video scenes and subjectively rated videos that may be used freely for research purposes. This web site assists industry and standards development efforts in the following areas: conducting subjective video quality tests, developing objective video quality models, improving video coding algorithms, and quantifying video processing algorithm improvements (e.g., video correction, enhancement, and conversion). Registered users may download videos, upload and share their test scenes with other CDVL users, and participate in forum discussions.

CDVL is the culmination of three years of joint effort by Intel Corporation, the University of California, and NTIA/ITS. NTIA/ITS maintains this web site and populated CDVL at launch with a variety of test scenes from our internal databases. NTIA/ITS regularly makes more content available on CDVL. We invite you to consider sharing research scenes through CDVL.