Overt visual attention for free-viewing and quality assessment tasks: Impact of the regions of interest on a video quality metric

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 547-558

  Le Meur, O ^a   Ninassi, A ^b,c   Le Callet, P ^c   Barba, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b TECHNICOLOR   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Free viewing and quality tasks; Video quality assessment; Video quality metric; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EYE-TRACKING; FREE-VIEWING AND QUALITY TASKS; H.264 VIDEO COMPRESSION; LOW LEVEL; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT; VIDEO QUALITY METRIC; VIDEO SEQUENCES; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL IMPORTANCE;

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77955711367     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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