scholarly journals AMBIQUAL - a full reference objective quality metric for ambisonic spatial audio

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Narbutt ◽  
Andrew Allen ◽  
Jan Skoglund ◽  
Michael Chinen ◽  
Andrew Hines
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Audio ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Full Reference ◽  
Objective Quality

scholarly journals AMBIQUAL: Towards a Quality Metric for Headphone Rendered Compressed Ambisonic Spatial Audio

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3188
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Narbutt ◽  
Jan Skoglund ◽  
Andrew Allen ◽  
Michael Chinen ◽  
Dan Barry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Spatial Audio ◽  
Localization Accuracy ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Audio Quality ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
Quality Assessments

Spatial audio is essential for creating a sense of immersion in virtual environments. Efficient encoding methods are required to deliver spatial audio over networks without compromising Quality of Service (QoS). Streaming service providers such as YouTube typically transcode content into various bit rates and need a perceptually relevant audio quality metric to monitor users’ perceived quality and spatial localization accuracy. The aim of the paper is two-fold. First, it is to investigate the effect of Opus codec compression on the quality of spatial audio as perceived by listeners using subjective listening tests. Secondly, it is to introduce AMBIQUAL, a full reference objective metric for spatial audio quality, which derives both listening quality and localization accuracy metrics directly from the B-format Ambisonic audio. We compare AMBIQUAL quality predictions with subjective quality assessments across a variety of audio samples which have been compressed using the Opus 1.2 codec at various bit rates. Listening quality and localization accuracy of first and third-order Ambisonics were evaluated. Several fixed and dynamic audio sources (single and multiple) were used to evaluate localization accuracy. Results show good correlation regarding listening quality and localization accuracy between objective quality scores using AMBIQUAL and subjective scores obtained during listening tests.

Full-Reference Video Quality Metric for Fully Scalable and Mobile SVC Content

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hosik Sohn ◽  
Hana Yoo ◽  
Wesley De Neve ◽  
Cheon Seog Kim ◽  
Yong Man Ro
Keyword(s):  
Video Quality ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Full Reference ◽  
Video Quality Metric

scholarly journals Edge Dissimilarity Reduced-Reference Quality Metric with Low Overhead Bitrate

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Farah Diyana Abdul Rahman ◽  
Dimitris Agrafiotis ◽  
Ahmad Imran Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Side Information ◽  
Video Quality ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Edge Information ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Reference Quality ◽  
Edge Based ◽  
Video Quality Metric

In multimedia transmission, it is important to rely on an objective quality metric which accurately represents the subjective quality of processed images and video sequences. Reduced-reference metrics make use of side-information that is transmitted to the receiver for estimating the quality of the received sequence with low complexity. In this paper, an Edge-based Dissimilarity Reduced-Reference video quality metric with low overhead bitrate is proposed. The metric is evaluated by finding the dissimilarity between the edge information of original and distorted sequences. The edge degradation can be detected in this manner as perceived video quality is highly associated with edge structural. Due to the high overhead using the Soergel distance, it is pertinent to find a way to reduce the overhead while maintaining the edge information that can convey the quality measure of the sequences. The effects of different edge detection operator, video resolution and file compressor are investigated. The aim of this paper is to significantly reduce the bitrate required in order to transmit the side information overhead as the reduced reference video quality metric. From the results obtained, the side information extracted using Sobel edge detector maintained consistency throughout the reduction of spatial and temporal down-sample.

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