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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2009.14.5.573

A Nobel Video Quality Degradation Monitoring Schemes Over an IPTV Service with Packet Loss  

Kwon, Jae-Cheol (Central R&D Lab., KT)
Oh, Seoung-Jun (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Suh, Chang-Ryul (Central R&D Lab., KT)
Chin, Young-Min (Central R&D Lab., KT)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.14, no.5, 2009 , pp. 573-588 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel video quality degradation monitoring scheme titled VR-VQMS(Visual Rhythm based Video Quality Monitoring Scheme) over an IPTV service prone to packet losses during network transmission. Proposed scheme quantifies the amount of quality degradation due to packet losses, and can be classified into a RR(reduced-reference) based quality measurement scheme exploiting visual rhythm data of H.264-encoded video frames at a media server and reconstructed ones at an Set-top Box as feature information. Two scenarios, On-line and Off-line VR-VQMS, are proposed as the practical solutions. We define the NPSNR(Networked Peak-to-peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) modified by the well-known PSNR as a new objective quality metric, and several additional objective and subjective metrics based on it to obtain the statistics on timing, duration, occurrence, and amount of quality degradation. Simulation results show that the proposed method closely approximates the results from 2D video frames and gives good estimation of subjective quality(i.e.,MOS(mean opinion score)) performed by 10 test observers. We expect that the proposed scheme can play a role as a practical solution to monitor the video quality experienced by individual customers in a commercial IPTV service, and be implemented as a small and light agent program running on a resource-limited set-top box.
Keywords
Video quality measurement; Reduced-reference; Quality degradation monitoring; Visual rhythm;
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