Experimental Evaluation of Loss Perception in Continuous Media.

Abstract

Perception of multimedia quality, specified by quality of service metrics can be used by system designers to optimize customer satisfaction within resource bounds enforced by general purpose computing platforms. Media losses, rate variations and transient synchronization losses have been speculated to affect human perception of multimedia quality. This paper presents metrics to measure such defects and results of a series of user experiments that justify such speculations. Results of the study provide bounds on losses, rate variations and transient synchronization losses as a function of user satisfaction, in the form of Likert values. It is shown how these results can be used by algorithm designers of underlying multimedia systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1998
Accession Number
ADA344170

Entities

People

  • A. Nerode
  • D. Wijesekera
  • J. Srivastava
  • M. Foresti

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Computer Science
  • Continuity
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Media
  • Multimedia
  • Observation
  • Perception
  • Pilot Studies
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities
  • Video Frames

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Organizational Psychology.