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Abstract

Mobile video quality assessment plays an essential role in multimedia systems and services. In the case of scalable video coding, which enables dynamic adaptation based on terminal capabilities and heterogeneous network, variable resolution is one of the most prominent types of video distortions. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid spatial and temporal distortion metric for evaluating video streaming quality with variable spatio-temporal resolution. The key idea is to project video sequence into feature domain and calculate the distortion of content information from the projected principal component matrix and its eigenvectors. This metric can measures the degree of content information degradation especially in spatio-temporal resolution scalable video. The performance of the proposed metric is evaluated and compared to some state-of-the-art quality evaluation metrics in the literature. Our results show that the proposed metric achieves good correlations with the subjective evaluations of the EPFL scale video database.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61572466).

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Mobile Computing and Pervasive Device, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Chao Chen, Wen Ji & Yiqiang Chen

  2. Department of Multimedia, Sungkyul University, Anyang, South Korea

    Seungmin Rho

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Bo-Wei Chen

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Chen, C., Ji, W., Rho, S. et al. Evaluate mobile video quality in hybrid spatial and temporal domain. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 14507–14524 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2992-8

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