Mobile Networks and Management. Third International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2011, Aveiro, Portugal, September 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Quality of Experience Assessment in Internet TV

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_19,
        author={Joana Palhais and Rui Cruz and M\^{a}rio Nunes},
        title={Quality of Experience Assessment in Internet TV},
        proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. Third International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2011, Aveiro, Portugal, September 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MONAMI},
        year={2012},
        month={9},
        keywords={Mean Opinion Score Objective Video Quality Quality of Experience Subjective Video Quality Internet TV},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_19}
    }
    
  • Joana Palhais
    Rui Cruz
    Mário Nunes
    Year: 2012
    Quality of Experience Assessment in Internet TV
    MONAMI
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_19
Joana Palhais1,*, Rui Cruz2,*, Mário Nunes2,*
  • 1: Instituto Superior Técnico
  • 2: Instituto Superior Técnico/INESC-ID/INOV
*Contact email: joanapalhais@ist.utl.pt, rui.cruz@ieee.org, mario.nunes@inov.pt

Abstract

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.