HDTV subjective quality of H.264 vs. MPEG-2, with and without packet loss

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-91

  Pinson, Margaret H ^a   Wolf, Stephen ^a   Cermak, Gregory ^b  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

^b Verizon Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

H.264; HDTV; MPEG 2; Packet loss; Quality; Subjective testing; Transmission errors

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; H.264; MANAGED NETWORKS; MPEG-2; MPEG-4 PART 10; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; RANDOM PACKET LOSS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; TRANSMISSION ERROR;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; ERROR DETECTION; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; PACKET LOSS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 77649189291     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2009.2034511     Document Type: Article

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