Objective assessment of region of interest-aware adaptive multimedia streaming quality

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 202-212

  Ciubotaru, Bogdan ^a   Muntean, Gabriel Miro ^a   Ghinea, Gheorghita ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content adaptation; Multimedia streaming; Region of interest; User perceived quality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; ADAPTIVE SCHEME; ADJUSTMENT ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINT; BIT RATES; COMMUNICATION LINKS; CONSTANT QUALITY; CONTENT ADAPTATION; CONTENT DELIVERY; END USERS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE REGIONS; MOVING IMAGE; MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; OBJECTIVE METRICS; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PERCEIVED VIDEO QUALITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE METRICS; REGION OF INTEREST; USER INTERESTS; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO SEQUENCES; VIDEO STREAMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

MEDIA STREAMING;

EID: 77955088958     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2009.2020448     Document Type: Article

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