Subjective assessment of bitdetecta mechanism for energy-aware multimedia content adaptation

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 480-492

  Moldovan, Arghir Nicolae ^a   Muntean, Cristina Hava ^a  

^a NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Battery power saving; bitrate estimation; objective assessment metrics; subjective video quality assessment

Indexed keywords

BATTERY CAPACITY; BATTERY POWER; BIT RATES; ENERGY AWARE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MOBILE DEVICE BATTERIES; MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ADAPTATION; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING APPLICATIONS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; OBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY; PERCEIVED QUALITY; POWER REQUIREMENT; POWER-SAVING; STREAMING MULTIMEDIA; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO BITRATE;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84865336203     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2012.2191688     Document Type: Article

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