Video quality assessment for mobile devices on mobile devices

Abstract

Pervasiveness of mobile devices and ubiquitous broadband Internet access have laid foundations for video content to be consumed increasingly on smart phones or tablets. As over 85% of the global consumer traffic by 2016 is estimated to be generated by streaming video content, video quality as perceived by end-users of such devices is becoming an important issue. Most of the studies concerned with Video Quality Assessment (VQA) for mobile devices have been carried out in a carefully controlled environment, thus potentially failing to take into account variables or effects present in real-world conditions. In this paper, we compare the results of traditional approach to VQA for mobile devices to those obtained in real-world conditions by using a physical mobile device, for the same video test-set. Results indicate that a difference in perceived video quality between the two settings exists, thus laying foundations for further research to explain the reasons behind it.