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On the first JND and break in presence of 360-degree content: an exploratory study

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Roberto G. de A. Azevedo,

Neil Birkbeck,

Ivan Janatra,

Balu Adsumilli,

Pascal FrossardAuthors Info & Claims

MMVE '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3304113.3326115

Published: 18 June 2019 Publication History

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Unlike traditional planar 2D visual content, immersive 360-degree images and videos undergo particular processing steps and are intended to be consumed via head-mounted displays (HMDs). To get a deeper understanding on the perception of 360-degree visual distortions when consumed through HMDs, we perform an exploratory task-based subjective study in which we have asked subjects to define the first noticeable difference and break-in-presence points when incrementally adding specific compression artifacts. The results of our study: give insights on the range of allowed visual distortions for 360-degree content; show that the added visual distortions are more tolerable in mono than in stereoscopic 3D; and identify issues with current 360-degree objective quality metrics.

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MMVE '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems

June 2019

53 pages

ISBN:9781450362993

DOI:10.1145/3304113

Conference Chairs:
Mario Montagud
i2CAT Foundation & University of Valencia, Spain
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Francesca De Simone
CWI, Netherlands
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General Chair:
Niall Murray
Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland

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Yang SYang PWang HZhang NYu L(2021)Just-Noticeable-Difference Based Coding and Rate Control of Mobile 360° Video Streaming2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685140(01-06)Online publication date: Dec-2021
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