Citation
Tavakoli, Samira and Gutiérrez Sánchez, Jesús and García Santos, Narciso
(2014).
Subjective quality study of adaptive streaming of monoscopic and stereoscopic video.
"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications", v. 32
(n. 4);
pp. 684-692.
ISSN 0733-8716.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2014.140402.
Abstract
Nowadays, HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become a reliable distribution technology offering significant advantages in terms of both user perceived Quality of Experience (QoE) and resource utilization for content and network service providers. By trading-off the video quality, HAS is able to adapt to the available bandwidth and display requirements so that it can deliver the video content to a variety of devices over the Internet. However, until now there is not enough knowledge of how the adaptation techniques affect the end user's visual experience. Therefore, this paper presents a comparative analysis of different bitrate adaptation strategies in adaptive streaming of monoscopic and stereoscopic video. This has been done through a subjective experiment of testing the end-user response to the video quality variations, considering the visual comfort issue. The experimental outcomes have made a good insight into the factors that can influence on the QoE of different adaptation strategies.