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causeobviousdistortionormaynotevenbenoticedbytheenduser,dependingonwhich
videoframetypesareimpaired.
Inaddition,impairmentscanbeintroducedduringtheencoding/decodingprocess,bythe
codecitselforaninappropriatelylowbitrates.Thevideocontent(e.g.,levelofdetailand
motiononscreen)canalsohaveasignificantimpacton
thevisibilityofproblems.
Furthermore,perceptualqualityisaffectedbysubjectivefactorsincludinghumanreaction
timeandthe‘recency effect’.Coupledwiththetypeofcontent,e.g.,fastmotion,highdetail,
orfrequentscenechanges,thequalityofexperiencefortheviewerwillvaryevenunderthe
sameimpairmentconditions.
Eachofth
eseobjectiveandsubjectivefactorsmustbetakenintoconsiderationinorderto
accuratelyestimateIPTVvideoperceptualquality.
A.1.1 Transmission‐RelatedImpairments
Packet‐basedvideocanbeverysensitivetonetworkimpairments.Packetlosscan
causesectionsofframesorcompleteframestobecorruptedordeleted.Forexample,the
MPEGcompressionalgorithmusesblock‐basedmotioncompensationforthereductionof
temporalredundancyandDiscreteCosineTransform(DCT)‐basedcompressionforthe
reductionofspatialredund
ancy.AnMPEGencodermaygeneratethreetypesofframe:Intra‐
coded(I),
Predictive(P),andBi‐directional(B)frames.
Figure2‐1.Packet
vs.FrameLoss
RatesforMPEG
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