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Transport analysis and quality evaluation of MVC video streaming

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This paper explores the performance of the emerging H.264/MVC standard for stereo video under various packetization schemes, encoding parameters and network conditions. An experimentation test-bed platform has been developed to support the multi session transmission approach for various video packetization options under various number of NAL units per frame. The paper presents measurements in terms of overhead as well as 3D video quality for sequences with different characteristics in terms of spatial resolution and motion. Extensive test-bed experiments indicate that the fragmentation of frames in more than one NAL units improves the perceived video quality measured objectively in terms of PSNR, VQM, SSIM for both base and non-base view as well as, subjectively in terms of 3D MOS.

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This work was supported by the SIEMENS “Excellence” Program by the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Greece.

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    Athanasios Kordelas

  2. School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Ilias Politis & Tasos Dagiuklas

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Kordelas, A., Politis, I. & Dagiuklas, T. Transport analysis and quality evaluation of MVC video streaming. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 5619–5644 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2530-8

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