SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF FRAME RATE IN BITRATE-CONSTRAINED LIVE STREAMING

Jiaqi He; Zhengfang Duanmu; Kede Ma

doi:10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461284

SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF FRAME RATE IN BITRATE-CONSTRAINED LIVE STREAMING

Jiaqi He
, Zhengfang Duanmu
, Kede Ma

Department of Computer Science

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

Abstract

Bandwidth constraints in live streaming require video codecs to balance compression strength and frame rate, yet the perceptual consequences of this trade-off remain underexplored. We present the high frame rate live streaming (HFR-LS) dataset, comprising 384 subject-rated 1080p videos encoded at multiple target bitrates by systematically varying compression strength and frame rate. A single-stimulus, hidden-reference subjective study shows that frame rate has a noticeable effect on perceived quality, and interacts with both bitrate and source content. The HFR-LS dataset is available at https://github.com/real-hjq/HFR-LS to facilitate research on bitrate-constrained live streaming. ©2026 IEEE

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subtitle of host publication	PROCEESINGS
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	12372-12376
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3315-6701-9
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3315-6702-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461284
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2026
Event	51st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026) - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 4 May 2026 → 8 May 2026 https://2026.ieeeicassp.org/

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Name	Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149
ISSN (Electronic)	2379-190X

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Conference	51st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)
Abbreviated title	ICASSP2026
Place	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	4/05/26 → 8/05/26
Internet address	https://2026.ieeeicassp.org/

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This work was supported by the Hong Kong ITC Innovation and Technology Fund (9440379 and 9440390).

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He, J., Duanmu, Z., & Ma, K. (2026). SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF FRAME RATE IN BITRATE-CONSTRAINED LIVE STREAMING. In ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): PROCEESINGS (pp. 12372-12376). (Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461284

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