Evaluation of video quality based on objectively estimated metric

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Koumaras, Harilaos ^a,c,d   Kourtis, Anastasios ^b,e,f   Martakos, Drakoulis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos   (Greece)

^d IEEE   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^f FP6/ATHENA Project   (Greece)

Author keywords

MPEG 4; Objective measurements; Perceived quality of service (PQoS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844460203     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/jcn.2005.6389807     Document Type: Article

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