Modeling Packet-Loss Visibility in MPEG-2 Video

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 341-355

  Kanumuri, Sandeep ^a,b   Cosman, Pamela C ^a,b,d,e   Reibman, Amy R ^a,c   Vaishampayan, Vinay A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Center for Wireless Communications   (United States)

^e Center for Wireless Communications ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Packet loss visibility; Perceptual quality metrics; Subjective testing; Video quality

Indexed keywords

BITSTREAM; CART; GLM; PACKET LOSSES VISIBILITY; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY METRICS; PIXEL; VIDEO QUALITY;

DECODING; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645164222     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2005.864343     Document Type: Article

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