Sporadic frame dropping impact on quality perception

Ricardo R. Pastrana-Vidal; Jean Charles Gicquel; Catherine Colomes; Hocine Cherifi

doi:10.1117/12.525746

7 June 2004 Sporadic frame dropping impact on quality perception

Ricardo R. Pastrana-Vidal, Jean Charles Gicquel, Catherine Colomes, Hocine Cherifi

Proceedings Volume 5292, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IX; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525746
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in real time video services over packet networks. When considering quality, it is essential to quantify user perception of the received sequence. Severe motion discontinuities are one of the most common degradations in video streaming. The end-user perceives a jerky motion when the discontinuities are uniformly distributed over time and an instantaneous fluidity break is perceived when the motion loss is isolated or irregularly distributed. Bit rate adaptation techniques, transmission errors in the packet networks or restitution strategy could be the origin of this perceived jerkiness. In this paper we present a psychovisual experiment performed to quantify the effect of sporadically dropped pictures on the overall perceived quality. First, the perceptual detection thresholds of generated temporal discontinuities were measured. Then, the quality function was estimated in relation to a single frame dropping for different durations. Finally, a set of tests was performed to quantify the effect of several impairments distributed over time. We have found that the detection thresholds are content, duration and motion dependent. The assessment results show how quality is impaired by a single burst of dropped frames in a 10 sec sequence. The effect of several bursts of discarded frames, irregularly distributed over the time is also discussed.

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Ricardo R. Pastrana-Vidal, Jean Charles Gicquel, Catherine Colomes, and Hocine Cherifi "Sporadic frame dropping impact on quality perception", Proc. SPIE 5292, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IX, (7 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525746

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