A recent publication from QxLab’s Dr Helard Becerra Martinez in the open access journal IEEE Access.
The paper pulls together all of the subjective QoE experimental work conducted during his PhD research and explores the relationship between different audio and video quality issues and how they influence quality when they interact.
UnB-AV: An Audio-Visual Database for Multimedia Quality Research
The paper describes an open research database of audio-visual sequences and quality scores aimed at multimedia quality research. The database contains a total of 140 source content, with a diverse semantic content, both in terms of the video and audio components. It also contains 2,320 test sequences with audio and video degradations, along with the corresponding quality and content subjective scores. The subjective scores were collected by performing 3 different psycho-physical experiments using the Immersive Methodology. The three experiments have been presented individually in previous studies. In the first experiment, only the video component of the audio-visual sequences were degraded with compression (H.264 and H.265) and transmission (packet-loss and frame freezing) distortions. In the second experiment, only the audio component of the audio-visual sequences were degraded with common audio distortions (clip, echo, chop, and background noise). Finally, in the third experiment the audio and video degradations were combined to degrade both audio and video components. The UnB-AV database is available for download from the site of the Laboratory of Digital Signal Processing of the University of Brasilia and The Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL).