Abstract: A method and apparatus for objectively measuring the image quality of a destination video signal generates measurement parameters that are indicative of human image quality perceptions. Subjective human test panel results are generated for a variety of test scenes and types of image impairment. Objective test results are also generated by the apparatus of the present invention for the variety of test scenes and image impairments. A statistical analysis means statistically analyzes the subjective and objective test results to determine operation of the apparatus. Accordingly, when the apparatus extracts test frames from the actual source and destination video signals and compares them, image quality parameters are output by the apparatus which are based on human image quality perceptions.