Peak signal-to-noise ratio
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For broader coverage of this topic, see Signal-to-noise ratio.
Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is an engineering term for the ratio between the maximum possible power of a signal and the power of corrupting noise that affects the fidelity of its representation. Because many signals have a very wide dynamic range, PSNR is usually expressed as a logarithmic quantity using the decibel scale.
PSNR is commonly used to quantify reconstruction quality for images and video subject to lossy compression.