Scene-Aware Soccer Video QoE Assessment - A Compressed-Domain Approach

The small screen of mobile devices and bandwidth limitations of communication networks greatly affect users' quality of experience (QoE), especially for soccer video, which is characterized by rapid movement and small objects. In this paper, a Compressed-domain Soccer Video Quality assessment Model (CSVQM) is proposed based on the fact that soccer video includes three distinct scene types, which cause different concerns for viewers. To reduce complexity and operate in real-time, all model parameters are derived from the compressed video stream without resorting to complete video decoding. The validation shows that CSVQM significantly outperforms conventional models in terms of accuracy, consistency, and complexity.