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A study on the Quality Assessment Method on Railway Video Transmission System (철도영상전송시스템의 화질평가방안에 관한 연구)

  • Chang Seok-Gahk;Cho Bong-Kwan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.1247-1252
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    • 2004
  • A objective quality assessment for the evaluation performance of a video transmission system as a basic step for construction of digital video transmission system between the spots and headquarter. Due to a limit of an analog video transmission system and the developments of various digital media and digital video standards, the need of introduce of a digital system are increased gradual1y, At this points. previously performance evaluations are performed and the quality assessment is the most important thing. We can be divided quality assessment method by the subjective quality assessment and objective quality assessment. The subjective quality assessment method has some problems which are required high cost and much time to evaluate the quality, And because existing objective quality assessment method such that PSNR are based on an analog form, the correlation with subjective data is very low. Therefore we design a new objective quality assessment method using Gabor wavelet transform reflecting HVS(Human Visual System), Designed objective quality assessment method is superior to other objective method such that PSNR or EPSNR In this paper, we proposed objective quality assessment using Gabor wavelet can be used for performance evaluation and verification of video transmission system.

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Sound Quality Evaluation of Vehicle Interior Noise Using Virtual Sound Quality Analysis (가상 음질 분석을 이용한 자동차 실내소음 음질 평가)

  • Kang, Sang-wook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.100-106
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    • 2017
  • Sound quality engineering in automobile noise applications has become more and more important under the current quiet driving condition because various noise components masked under high noise level can be audible in quieter driving situation. Many researches have been carried out for subjective and objective assessments on automobile sounds and noises. In particular, the interior sound quality has been one of research fields that can give high-quality feature to automobile products. Although many works related to the interior sound quality have been progressed or completed in foreign countries, limited research results are presented in the country. In the study, subjective assessments are first performed with 20 subjects to select perceptual adjectives suitable to the assessment of car interior noises during acceleration. The selected perceptual adjectives are employed as the assessment scales to evaluate the acceleration noises in questionnaire procedures using 35 subjects, for which several noises are created through digital filtering of the acceleration noises measured. Mean values and standard deviations for subjective assessment scores obtained by the questionnaire procedures are calculated and their reliability are also verified. Finally, various statistical analyses such as the correlation analysis and the factor analysis are carried out to reveal the interrelationship between the assessment scales and the spectrum components of the acceleration noises.

Subjective Assessment Method for Earphone : Compensation Filter and Assessment Results (이어폰 주관 평가 기법 : 보정 필터 및 평가 결과)

  • Chon, Sang-Bae;Sung, Koeng-Mo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, a subjective assessment for sound quality evaluation of earphones is introduced. Although instantaneous switching among assessed stimuli is very important in the subjective assessment from the simultaneous comparison's point of view, it is physically impossible in the subjective assessment of earphone. Thus, this paper proposes an indirect assessment method using recorded stimuli and accompanied pre-processing and the assessment results are presented.

Objective Speech Quality Measurement for Naturalness Assessment (자연성 평가를 위한 객관적 음질 평가 방법)

  • 장경아;이희원;송종회;배명진
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.361-364
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    • 2001
  • Speech quality measurement is sorted subjective and objective speech quality measurements based on the mathematics representation. Between two, subjective speech quality measurement is able to be evaluated more accurate speech quality then objective one but it has a demerit such as taking much more time and cost to performance it. However, using objective speech quality measurement being able to predict the result of evaluating the subjective speech quality compliments the demerit of subjective standards which is mentioned former. In this paper, we propose the objective speech quality measurement in order to evaluate naturalness assessment approximately like subjective speech quality measurement. We measured naturalness of speech with estimating speaking rate, variation of pitch and energy.

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Subjective Quality Management Scheme for Video Services in Mobile Environments (모바일 환경에서의 주관적 영상 서비스 품질 관리 방안)

  • Kim, Beom-Joon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.331-338
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    • 2019
  • Video services over Internet is getting important. Since the service quality of the video service provided by streaming over Internet may be degraded, the quality assessment and management are very important. Currently the objective method based on the measured values of parameters is being widely used for video services. The subjective assessment, however, is more ideal in that the quality that is experienced by human. This paper, therefore, proposes a subjective quality management scheme for video service in a mobile environment that overcomes the limitations of the subjective method. The proposed scheme is expected to contribute to implement a more efficient quality management system for video services in a mobile environment.

Subjective Evaluation of Sound Quality in Vehicle Passenger Compartment during Acceleration (자동차 주행 가속 차실 소음의 주관적 음질 평가)

  • Kang, S.W.;Lee, J.M.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06b
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    • pp.187-191
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    • 2001
  • Sound quality engineering in automobile noise applications has become more and more important under the current quiet driving condition that the interior noise level is below 65 dBA, because various noise components masked under high noise level can be audible in quieter driving situation. Many researches have been carried out for subjective and objective assessments on automobile sounds and noises. In particular, the interior sound quality has been one of research fields that can give high-quality feature to automobile products. Although many works related to the interior sound quality have been progressed or completed in foreign countries, limited research results are presented in the country. In the study, as a base step necessary to objective assessments on car interior noises, subjective assessments are performed with 20 subjects. For this purpose, perceptual adjectives suitable to the assessment of acceleration noises are selected as assessment scales through questionnaire procedures using 35 subjects. Mean values and standard deviations are calculated for noises created through digital filtering of acceleration noises measured. In addition, the correlation analysis and the factor analysis are carried out to investigate the dependence of the assessment scales selected.

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Objective Picture Quality Assessment of Block Based Moving Picture Coder (블록기반 동영상 부호화기의 객관적 화질평가)

  • Chung, Tae-Yun;Hong, Min-Suk;Park, Kang-Seo;Kim, Hyun-Sool;Park, Sang-Hui
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.12
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    • pp.1589-1598
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    • 1999
  • Conventional MSE or PSNR based methods for objective picture quality assessment of moving picture coder are not well correlated with subjective human evaluation. In recent years, the design of better objective quality assessment has attracted much intention and several picture quality metrics based on the properties of Human Visual System has been proposed. This paper proposes new metric which is appropriate for objective picture quality assessment of block based moving picture coder by considering frequency sensitivity, inter-intra channel masking and several distortion artifacts caused by block based coding. The experimental results show that the proposed method is good correlated with subjective assessment.

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An Objective No-Reference Perceptual Quality Assessment Metric based on Temporal Complexity and Disparity for Stereoscopic Video

  • Ha, Kwangsung;Bae, Sung-Ho;Kim, Munchurl
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.255-265
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    • 2013
  • 3DTV is expected to be a promising next-generation broadcasting service. On the other hand, the visual discomfort/fatigue problems caused by viewing 3D videos have become an important issue. This paper proposes a perceptual quality assessment metric for a stereoscopic video (SV-PQAM). To model the SV-PQAM, this paper presents the following features: temporal variance, disparity variation in intra-frames, disparity variation in inter-frames and disparity distribution of frame boundary areas, which affect the human perception of depth and visual discomfort for stereoscopic views. The four features were combined into the SV-PQAM, which then becomes a no-reference stereoscopic video quality perception model, as an objective quality assessment metric. The proposed SV-PQAM does not require a depth map but instead uses the disparity information by a simple estimation. The model parameters were estimated based on linear regression from the mean score opinion values obtained from the subjective perception quality assessments. The experimental results showed that the proposed SV-PQAM exhibits high consistency with subjective perception quality assessment results in terms of the Pearson correlation coefficient value of 0.808, and the prediction performance exhibited good consistency with a zero outlier ratio value.

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A Study on the Comparison of Digital Speech Coding Performance (디지털 음성방식의 성능 비교에 대한 연구)

  • 배철수
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.881-890
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    • 1992
  • Resonable speech quality assessment methodologies are required for speech quality assessment model which is used at speech system and communication network. There are objectlve measuies and subjective measures and subjective measure has the variousproblems in speech quality assessment methodologies. The objective of this study is to compare objective measures with subjective measure and obtain the objective measure as close as possible to subjective measure.

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Comparison of subjective video quality assessment methods for multimedia applications (멀티미디어 응용을 위한 주관적 동영상 품질평가 방법의 비교분석)

  • Choe, Ji-Hwan;Jeong, Tae-Uk;Choi, Hyun-Soo;Lee, Eun-Jae;Lee, Sang-Wook;Lee, Chul-Hee
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.177-184
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we compared two subjective assessment methods DSCQS(Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale method) and ACR(Absolute Category Rating). These methods are widely used in order to evaluate video quality for multimedia application. We performed subjective quality tests using DSCQS and ACR methods. The subjective scores obtained by the DSCQS and ACR methods show that these methods are highly correlated in terms of MOS(Mean Opinion Score) and have slightly lower correlation in terms of DMOS(Difference Mean Opinion Score). The results indicate that ACR method is an effective subjective quality assessment method, which shows compatible performance with DSCQS method and can evaluate a larger number of video sequences.