Eliminating the Effects of Freezing Frames on User Perceptive by Using a Time Interleaving Technique
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Hussein Muzahim Aziz, Markus Fiedler, Håkan Grahn, Lars Lundberg |
| Title: | Eliminating the Effects of Freezing Frames on User Perceptive by Using a Time Interleaving Technique |
| Journal: | Multimedia Systems |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 251-262 |
| ISSN: | 0942-4962 |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1007/s00530-011-0235-z. |
| ISI number: | 000304565800004 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Authors e-mail: | haz@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Streaming video over a wireless network faces several challenges such as high packet error rates, bandwidth variations, and delays, which could have negative effects on the video streaming and the viewer will perceive a frozen picture for certain durations due to loss of frames. In this study, we propose a Time Interleaving Robust Streaming (TIRS) technique to significantly reduce the frozen video problem and provide a satisfactory quality for the mobile viewer. This is done by reordering the streaming video frames as groups of even and odd frames. The objective of streaming the video in this way is to avoid the losses of a sequence of neighbouring frames in case of a long sequence interruption. We evaluate our approach by using a user panel and mean opinion score (MOS) measurements; where the users observe three levels of frame losses. The results show that our technique significantly improves the smoothness of the video on the mobile device in the presence of frame losses, while the transmitted data are only increased by almost 9% (due to reduced time locality). |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Networks and Communications |
| Keywords: | Streaming video , Frozen pictures , Interleaving, Switching frames, MOS |
