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Nowadays, Service Providers are increasingly concerned about the concept of Quality of Experience (QoE),, even more, when talking about Internet TV or WebTV, where no guarantees of delivery are provided. This paper describes the research and the results on the influence of the level of interest (on a particular sport) in the subjective quality assessment of the corresponding broadcasted media. This analysis is motivated by the work being developed in the European Project My-eDirector 2012, which has the capability to cover the London Olympic Games 2011 via the Web. Therefore, a subjective test was prepared and performed where each observer visioned and assessed the perceived video quality of a set of six sports, encoded in four different bitrate/resolution sets. From the analysis of the collected data it is possible to demonstrate that the interest level has a strong influence in the subjective assessment of the video quality. Based on these results, an empiric formula was deduced to estimate the Mean Opinion Source (MOS) as a function of bitrate and interest level.
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Palhais, J., Cruz, R.S., Nunes, M.S. (2012). Quality of Experience Assessment in Internet TV. In: Pentikousis, K., Aguiar, R., Sargento, S., Agüero, R. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_19
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