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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2014.19.2.148

Quality Verification of Fixed and Mobile Hybrid 3DTV Services via a Subjective Test of Mixed-resolution Stereoscopic Videos  

Lee, Jooyoung (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Kim, Sung-Hoon (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Jeong, Seyoon (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Choi, Jin Soo (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Kang, Dong-Wook (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
Jung, Kyeong-Hoon (School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University)
Kim, Jinwoong (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.19, no.2, 2014 , pp. 148-157 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various techniques have been developed for efficient compression of stereoscopic 3D videos. Mixed-resolution based approach is one representative bit-rate saving method based on the characteristics of human visual system that the mixed-resolution stereoscopic videos are perceived close to the higher resolution. However, when the difference between the left and right image resolutions is bigger than a certain threshold level, it causes the perceived quality degradation of the 3D images. Subsequently, several researches tried to find the correlation between the difference in resolution and the level of the perceived quality degradation, but they conducted the experiments just considering the difference in resolution without considering the viewing distances, so thereby different results were retrieved from test to test. In this work, we calculated the optimal viewing distance based on the human visual system, and conducted the subjective tests with the calculated viewing distance. With the results, we demonstrate that the fixed and mobile hybrid 3DTV, which is based on mixed-resolution stereoscopic images, can provide the high quality 3D services.
Keywords
3DTV; ATSC; mixed-resolution stereo video; stereo video compression;
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