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GAMIVAL: Video Quality Prediction on Mobile Cloud Gaming Content
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Signal Processing Letters, IEEE. 30:324-328 2023
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Streaming media
Feature extraction
Computational modeling
Quality assessment
Video recording
Predictive models
Cloud gaming
Image/video quality assessment
mobile cloud gaming
natural scene statistics
no-reference
perceptual quality
temporal statistics
Language
ISSN
1070-9908
1558-2361
Abstract
The mobile cloud gaming industry has been rapidly growing over the last decade. When streaming gaming videos are transmitted to customers' client devices from cloud servers, algorithms that can monitor distorted video quality without having any reference video available are desirable tools. However, creating No-Reference Video Quality Assessment (NR VQA) models that can accurately predict the quality of streaming gaming videos rendered by computer graphics engines is a challenging problem, since gaming content generally differs statistically from naturalistic videos, often lacks detail, and contains many smooth regions. Until recently, the problem has been further complicated by the lack of adequate subjective quality databases of mobile gaming content. We have created a new gaming-specific NR VQA model called the Gaming Video Quality Evaluator (GAMIVAL), which combines and leverages the advantages of spatial and temporal gaming distorted scene statistics models, a neural noise model, and deep semantic features. Using a support vector regression (SVR) as a regressor, GAMIVAL achieves superior performance on the new LIVE-Meta Mobile Cloud Gaming (LIVE-Meta MCG) video quality database.