Pith Number

pith:MPTZOIVN

pith:2025:MPTZOIVNSH2CQEXWC3VXBD4EUN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Banding Artifacts on Compressed Videos

Alan C. Bovik, Balu Adsumilli, Chenlong He, Li-Heng Chen, Neil Berkbeck, Qi Zheng, Yibo Fan, Yilin Wang, Zhengzhong Tu

arxiv:2508.08700 v2 · 2025-08-12 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MPTZOIVNSH2CQEXWC3VXBD4EUN}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:54:50.918153Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63e79722ad91f42812f616eb708f84a374d4e132bb19e905b8f85306596a02a3

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.08700 · arxiv_version: 2508.08700v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.08700 · pith_short_12: MPTZOIVNSH2C · pith_short_16: MPTZOIVNSH2CQEXW · pith_short_8: MPTZOIVN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MPTZOIVNSH2CQEXWC3VXBD4EUN \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 63e79722ad91f42812f616eb708f84a374d4e132bb19e905b8f85306596a02a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66bd4d2df789b606f1c1152564bda3812db0a291981612d5fa25e67e8d505b7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-12T07:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "377bc4bc5a3ddf50c222ad8dba4878a15da254ea6b6b754b4cfb08e65f14ccaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.08700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}