Title
Video Quality Metric for Streaming Service Using DASH Standard
Date Issued
2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lopes Rosa R.
Costa Alfaia E.
Issy Abrahao J.
Bressan G.
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Currently, dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard is used to change the video resolution according to the network capacity of the end user's. However, if the video resolution changes frequently, the attention of the users can be affected decreasing their quality-of-experience (QoE). In this context, this paper proposes a no-reference video quality metric that takes three impairment factors into account, initial buffering delay, temporal interruptions or pauses, and video resolution changes during a video transmission. Also, the temporal locations of pauses and resolution changes are considered. In order to perform this task, extensive subjective tests were conducted. Experimental results show that the evaluators' QoE is highly correlated with the frequency of pauses, video resolution changes and initial delay. Based on these results a video streaming quality metric for DASH services (VsQM DASH) is formulated and implemented on PC and mobile hand-held devices. Finally, the performance of VsQM DASH is validated with additional subjective tests reaching a person correlation coefficient of 0.99. Furthermore, experimental results demonstrated that the proposed metric has low complexity because it is based on application level parameters and its energy consumption is negligible in relation to the energy consumed by the video player; therefore, can be easily implemented in consumer electronic devices.
Start page
628
End page
639
Volume
62
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84971572076
Source
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
ISSN of the container
00189316
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received September 15, 2015; revised February 13, 2016; accepted April 22, 2016. Date of publication May 30, 2016; date of current version August 31, 2016. This work was supported by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), Brazil, under Grant 2011/12724-8, in the project "Definition of quality index to evaluate the QoE in video streaming service."
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