Quality assessment of High Definition TV distribution over IP networks

Author

Issa, Omneya ; Li, Wei ; Liu, Hong ; Speranza, Filippo ; Renaud, Ron

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

13-15 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

High Definition (HD) content delivery over IP networks has become a reality in the market of entertainment technologies. This paper presents a professional testbed deployed to emulate a real use case of delivering high definition TV material over an IPTV network. The quality of the delivered H.264/AVC encoded video was evaluated by common objective video quality assessment tools in emulated environment subject to impairments. Objective measurements were further validated by subjective tests. Based on the obtained results, guidelines were drawn for the prediction of user perceived quality in loss-prone environments and on the user perception tolerance for viewing impaired HD broadcast IPTV.

Keywords

IP networks; IPTV; high definition television; quality of service; video coding; H.264/AVC video coding; IPTV network; high definition content delivery; high definition television; user perceived quality; video quality assessment; Automatic voltage control; Guidelines; HDTV; High definition video; IP networks; IPTV; Materials testing; Multimedia communication; Quality assessment; TV; IPTV; Networking; Performance Evaluation; Quality of Service and Quality of Experience;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, 2009. BMSB '09. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bilbao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2590-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2591-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBMSB.2009.5133798

Filename

5133798