Quality assessment of virtual reality videos

Pei Wu, Ping An*, Jian Ma

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

360-degree spherical images/videos, also called virtual reality (VR) images/videos, can provide an immersive experience of real scenes in some specific systems. This makes it widely used in VR games, sporting events and VR movies. However, due to its high resolution, it is so difficult to transmit, compress or store VR images/videos. Therefore, it is significant to study how noise affects the quality of VR images. To this end, this paper builds a VR video database, and carries out subjective and objective experiments on them. Specifically, first, six standard panoramic videos are processed by inputting three kinds of distorted types to establish a VR video database which comprises 96 videos. Second, we utilize the Double Stimulus Injury Scale (DSIS) for subjective experiments. All subjective scores are from 20 non-professional viewers. Third, we utilize 6 existing objective metrics to validate our database. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that the established VR database is suitable for subjective and objective quality evaluation of VR video. Our work has alleviated the problem of missing VR databases. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2019.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital TV and Multimedia Communication - 15th International Forum, IFTC 2018, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages273-283
Volume1009
ISBN (Print)9789811381379
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 May 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Forum of Digital TV and Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2018 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 20 Sept 201821 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1009
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference15th International Forum of Digital TV and Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period20/09/1821/09/18

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Research Keywords

  • Objective quality assessment
  • Panoramic video database
  • Performance comparison
  • Subjective quality assessment

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