• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권2B호
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• pp.352-360
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• 2010

IPTV나 Mobile IPTV 같은 IP 기반의 방 통 융합형 멀티미디어 서비스는 사용자 인지적 QoE가 보장된 서비스를 제공하는 것이 절실하다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 Mobile IPTV 서비스시 다양한 IP망의 조건에 따라 발생하는 에러의 영향으로 열화된 컨텐츠의 손상 정도를 보다 정확하고 효율적으로 평가하기 위한 방안을 제안하였다. QoE를 고려한 실시간 전송시 측정을 위해서 손상된 프레임의 효율적 정합 및 측정 방법을 보여 주었다. 제안된 알고리즘은 실시간 전송 스트림의 각 프레임으로 부터 디지털화된 컨텐츠의 밝기 정보를 추출하여 분석하며 블러, 블록, 에지 비즈니스, 컬러 에러 등 QoE 요소들을 RR 기반의 측정 파라메터로 활용하여 평가하였다. 제안된 방안의 정확성을 증명하기 위해서 원 소스 컨텐츠와 손상된 컨텐츠를 비교 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.327-346
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• 2013

Researchers as well as network providers are increasingly interested in understanding how a network user's experience changes in relation to different quality of service (QoS) parameters, with many attempts being made to identify the general relationship between quality of experience (QoE) and QoS. Several relations in different function forms have been proposed. There are instances when this variety of proposed functions potentially results in one problem having completely dissimilar solutions at the same time. The question then is which function form is the one that can better explain this relationship. In this paper, three major existing quantitative relationships between QoE and QoS are investigated. After conducting a comprehensive comparative analysis between them, a new definition of QoE-QoS dependency appears. It then results in identifying a new mutual relationship between QoE and QoS. The newly proposed relationship improves the deficiency of previous QoE-QoS relationships along with solving the problem of diversity of simultaneous solutions for one problem.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.843-853
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• 2010

A successful deployment of multimedia applications over wireless environments entails improving the quality of service (QoS), not only from a technical point of view, but also considering the quality of experience (QoE) from the final user's perception. Although objective QoE measure models avoid the difficulties of subjective surveys, subjective QoE assessments are essential to understand the way users evaluate the QoS. In this work, we study the effect of a wide range of parameters on the QoE of VVoIP applications in a real wireless scenario. Through a complete statistical analysis of users' ratings, we identify the following facts. Although the use of VVoIP in wireless networks does not yet represent an advantage for users, there are great expectations for all applications under study, and with greater popularity comes higher expectations. It is easier for respondents to identify good behavior than poor behavior. Whereas the respondents' frequency of Internet use does not impact on the scores, respondents' gender does. Finally, the most determining parameters of quality from a user's perspective were instability, video quality, voice distortion, usefulness, and graphical interface.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.18-30
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• 2015

As the speed of networks that subscribers can use has greatly increased, demand for high-quality broadcast content, such as from Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and Video on Demand (VoD), is likewise increasing. Therefore, while broadcasters are increasing content and channels, they are striving to improve consumer quality of experience (QoE) to differentiate themselves from competitors, including by producing higher physical-quality content. Recently, subjective measurement methods have been internationally standardized as the most reliable approach for measuring and evaluating IPTV QoE. However, a majority of these methods are performed in experimental environments and are based on the extremely brief viewing period of approximately ten seconds using original reference videos. It is actually difficult to apply standard evaluation methods based on a ten-second viewing interval to assess real broadcast watching of IPTV or other services that involve a longer time (i.e., more than thirty minutes). In this paper, we therefore propose a method that accommodates actual viewing environments. Using the mean opinion score, we experimentally analyze the effects of evaluation interval changes under actual conditions in which IPTV service is provided. In addition, we propose improvements by applying the results into actual live broadcast IPTV service and by analyzing consumer service QoE.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.2513-2530
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• 2021

With the fast development of information and communication technologies, video streaming services and applications are increasing rapidly. However, the network condition is volatile. In order to provide users with better quality of service, it is necessary to develop an accurate and low-complexity model for Quality of Experience (QoE) prediction of time-varying video. Memory effects refer to the psychological influence factor of historical experience, which can be taken into account to improve the accuracy of QoE evaluation. In this paper, we design subjective experiments to explore the impact of Short-Term Memory (STM) on QoE. The experimental results show that the user's real-time QoE is influenced by the duration of previous viewing experience and the expectations generated by STM. Furthermore, we propose analytical models to determine the relationship between intrinsic video quality, expectation and real-time QoE. The proposed models have better performance for real-time QoE prediction when the video is transmitted in a fluctuate network. The models are capable of providing more accurate guidance for improving the quality of video streaming services.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.161-162
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 주관적 3D quality of experience (QoE) 평가에 적합한 IACQE (Interactive Assistance Continuous Quality Evaluation) 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 크게 3D 평가 영상이 재생되는 디스플레이와 평가 도구사이의 device interaction, 평가 도구와 평가 참여자사이의 human interaction process로 구성된다. Device interaction process는 무선 네트워크 프로토콜 (WLAN and WiFi)을 통해 3D 디스플레를 동작시키는 서버와 평가 도구 사이의 정확한 동기화 및 평가결과 기록 등의 작업을 수행하며, human interaction process는 평가 도구로 사용하는 tablet-pc의 촉각, 시각, 청각적인 자극을 통해 기존의 주관적 3D QoE 평가에서 나타날 수 있는 문제점들을 최소화 한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.440-451
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• 2008

최근 IP 기반의 멀티미디어 서비스가 증가하면서 IPTV에 대한 수요가 급증할 것으로 예상되고 있다. IPTV는 케이블을 이용하는 기존의 TV와 달리 IP 네트워크 기반의 다양한 서비스 제공이 가능하다. 그러나 IPTV 서비스 품질은 패킷 손실, 지터와 같은 네트워크 열화에 크게 영향을 받기 때문에 언제나 안정된 서비스를 보장하기가 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 영상 열화에 대하여 주관적 평가를 반영한 IPTV 서비스 품질측정 방안을 도출한다. 이를 위하여 시청자에게 인지적으로 영향을 줄 수 있는 열화 항목을 선정하였으며 선정된 각 열화 항목에 대하여 측정 메트릭을 제안하였다. 각 열화 항목에 대하여 MOS(Mean Opinion Score) 기반의 주관적 평가를 수행하였으며 제안한 메트릭의 측정 결과를 주관적 평가에 사상시켜 주관적 인지 상태를 고려하는 항목별 객관적 품질측정 기준을 도출한다. 다양한 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 개발된 품질측정 메트릭이 주관적 측면을 잘 반영하고 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2464-2479
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• 2020

This paper presents a detailed subjective quality assessment for the ultra-high definition (UHD) videos having frame rates of 30fps and 60 fps. The subjective assessment is based on the ITU-R BT-500 recommendations, where double stimulus continuous quality scale (DSCQS-type II) test is performed for the evaluation of the perceived quality of the user's in terms of differential mean opinion score (DMOS). Encoding of the UHD videos by opting encoders i.e. H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and VP9 at five different quantization parameter (QP) levels is done to investigate the perceived user's quality of experience (QoE) given as DMOS. Moreover, the encoding efficiency as the encoding time for each encoder and qualitative performance by employing full-reference (FR) quality metrics are presented in this work.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.592-606
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• 2011

Currently, the development of multimedia communication has progressed so rapidly that the video program service has become a requirement for ordinary customers. The quality of experience (QoE) for the visual signal is of the fundamental importance for numerous image and video processing applications, where the goal of video quality assessment (VQA) is to automatically measure the quality of the visual signal in agreement with the human judgment of the video quality. Considering the codec effect to the video quality, in this paper an efficient non-reference (NR) VQA algorithm is proposed which estimates the video quality (VQ) only by utilizing the distorted video signal at the destination. The VQA feature vectors (FVs) which have high relationships with the subjective quality of the distorted video are investigated, and a hybrid NR VQA (HNRVQA) function is established by considering the multiple FVs. The simulation results, testing on the SDTV programming provided by VCEG Phase I, show that the proposed algorithm can represent the VQ accurately, and it can be used to replace the subjective VQA to measure the quality of the video signal automatically at the destinations.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.331-338
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• 2019

인터넷을 통한 영상 서비스의 비중이 점점 높아지고 있다. 인터넷을 통한 스트리밍 형태로 제공되는 영상서비스는 전송 과정에서 품질이 저하될 수 있기 때문에 품질 평가 및 관리가 매우 중요하다. 현재 영상 서비스에 대한 품질 관리는 특정 파라미터들의 측정값에 기초한 객관적 방법이 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나 영상 서비스의 품질은 사람이 체감하는 품질이기 때문에 본질적으로 주관적인 측정이 더 이상적이라 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 주관적 방법이 가지는 한계점을 극복할 수 있는 영상 서비스 품질 관리 방안을 제안하고 이를 위한 시스템을 설계한다. 제안하는 방법은 향후 모바일 환경에서 영상 서비스를 보다 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는데 기여할 것으로 기대된다.