A framework for end-to-end video quality prediction of MPEG video

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-154

  Koumaras, Harilaos ^a,c   Lin, C H ^b   Shieh, C K ^b   Kourtis, Anastasios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Business College of Athens (BCA)   (Greece)

Author keywords

Frame loss; MPEG; Packet loss; PQoS; Prediction; Quality of Experience (QoE); SSIM; Video quality

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; DISCRETE MODELS; ENCODED SIGNALS; ENCODING PARAMETERS; ENCODING PROCESS; ERROR PRONES; FRAME LOSS; LINE NETWORK; MPEG VIDEO; MPEG-4 STANDARD; NETWORK QOS; PACKET LOSS RATIO; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PRE-ENCODING; PREDICTION QUALITY; USER SATISFACTION; VIDEO CONTENTS; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO SERVICES; VIDEO SIGNAL;

DEGRADATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PACKET LOSS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 77249154552     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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