User:Benjamin Pak/VCX-Forum

Foundation
VCX-Forum is a non-profit organization, a "place" to set standards for testing and evaluation, and a fair competition among companies. VCX-Forum develops the VCX score, a smartphone camera value indicator.

Test evaluation is based on the five tenets which includes user experience, objective, transparent, and progressive, independence.

Tenets

 * 1) Reality: VCX measurements shall ensure the out-of-the-box experience
 * 2) Objective: VCX shall remain 100% objective
 * 3) Transparent: VCX shall be open and transparent
 * 4) Independent: VCX shall employ/use an independent imaging lab for testing
 * 5) Progressive: VCX shall seek continuous improvement

System
It consists of members who are involved in mobile manufacturers, chipset/module vendors, board members who are elected from them and a coordinator. The standards, the rules of the forum, and all aspects of the association are built by the input and participation of members. It is a system in which a specific member can not benefit from the association. The boards are elected every two years.

History
In the early 1990s, the ISO technical committee began to develop standards for how to measure the quality and performance of digital cameras. In 1997, Image Engineering, a member of the ISO committee, and Vodafone, one of the current vcx members, conducted digital camera tests as the first independent test labs for digital cameras in the world.

In 2013, this test method has been fully modernized, adding new quality parameters based on the latest technology, tested in various lighting conditions and various user cases.

Over the next few years, these companies created a group called the VCX-Forum in 2017 to provide objective and transparent materials to the public based on research materials from Vodafone and Image Engineering, invited companies to participate in the project, It was finally established in July 2017.

VCX score
It is based on images taken in a controlled environment and calculations by a computer for evaluation under the same conditions and does not include visual assessment or other subjective factors. The only subjective component is the weight, which is what determines which rating is more important for overall performance compared to other performance. This weight has been determined transparently by all the members of the VCX Forum, the Expert Group in image quality industry, and applies uniformly to all devices with control variable test.

Firm information
Location: Germany

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