The Effect of Spatio-temporal Inconsistency on the Subjective Quality Evaluation of Omnidirectional Videos
Wei Zhang, Wenjie Zou, Fuzheng Yang, Lucie Lévêque, Hantao Liu
Abstract
With the development of immersive media technologies, omnidirectional video services have been launched in many fields. Conducting subjective quality evaluation research becomes a crucial step to benchmark and ensure the quality of omnidirectional video services. As omnidirectional videos record spherical visual scenes that are broader than the visual field of human eyes, the quality scores rated by different observers are based on individual spatio-temporal viewing experience. The potential spatio-temporal inconsistency between observers may impact the reliability of subjective quality evaluation and thus challenge existing experimental methodologies. In this paper, we focus on investigating the effect of spatial-temporal inconsistency on the subjective quality evaluation of omnidirectional videos. A systematic quality evaluation experiment was designed with various viewing methods involved. Experimental results showed that the spatio-temporal inconsistency has a significant impact on the reliability of subjective quality results and the impact is strongly determined by the viewing method. We intend to provide recommendations with respect to the subjective quality evaluation of omnidirectional videos.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2019_theeffectofspati,
title = {The Effect of Spatio-temporal Inconsistency on the Subjective Quality Evaluation of Omnidirectional Videos},
author = {Wei Zhang and Wenjie Zou and Fuzheng Yang and Lucie Lévêque and Hantao Liu},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2019},
year = {2019}
}