Content-adaptive packet-layer model for quality assessment of networked video services

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 672-683

  Yang, Fuzheng ^a   Song, Jiarun ^a   Wan, Shuai ^b   Wu, Hong Ren ^c  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

coding distortion; networked video; packet loss; packet layer model; Video quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE METHODS; CODING DISTORTION; CONTENT-ADAPTIVE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FRAME QUALITY; I-FRAMES; LIMITED INFORMATION; NETWORKED VIDEO; NON-INTRUSIVE; PACKET HEADER; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY DEGRADATION; QUALITY MONITORING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPEARMAN RANK; TEMPORAL POOLING; VIDEO CONTENTS; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

CORRELATION METHODS; PACKET LOSS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84866507424     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2012.2207705     Document Type: Article

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