Overview – Workshop Program
Wednesday, July 3rd
08:45 Opening ceremony
09:00 Keynote #1 (Session Chair: Patrick Le Callet)
Simon Schütte on Kansei Engineering: How to design emotional experiences into products and services
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Oral Session #1
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Poster madness session #1
14:00 Poster Session #1
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Special Session #1 “QoE for Web and Cloud Applications”
18:00 Closing Day #1
19:00 Welcome Reception @ Seepark Hotel
Thursday, July 4th
09:00 Special Session #2 “Experiencing Immersive Audio”
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Keynote #2 (Session Chair: Touradj Ebrahimi)
Aljoša Smolic on 3D Video Processing, Perception, and Quality – A Content Creator’s Perspective
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Oral Session #2
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 QUALINET Industry Forum and Expo
17:30 Closing Day #2
18:15 Boarding for boat trip towards Pörtschach for the social event
18:30 Departure of boat towards Pörtschach for the social event
19:10 Conference Dinner @ Werzer’s Hotel Resort Pörtschach
Friday, July 5th
09:30 Dataset session
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Poster madness session #2
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Poster session #2 featuring Special Session #3 “Affect and Physiology in QoE Research”
14:30 Keynote #3 (Session Chair: Stefan Winkler)
Peter Purgathofer on The many perspectives of Quality of Experience
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Oral Session #3
18:00 Workshop Close
Oral Session #1
Session Chair: Alexander Raake
- M. Bernardo, A. Pinheiro, M. Pereira, P. Fiadeiro: Specific Chromatic Errors: A Quality Assessment
- T. Mäki, D. Kukolj, D. Ðordević, M. Varela: A Reduced-Reference Parametric Model for Audiovisual Quality of IPTV Services
- H. Yu, S. Winkler: Image Complexity and Spatial Information
- A. Hines, P. Počta, H. Melvin: Detailed Comparative Analysis of PESQ and ViSQOL Behaviour in the Context of Playout Delay Adjustments Introduced by VoIP Jitter Buffer Algorithms
Poster Session #1
Session Chair: Andrew Perkis
- B. Rainer, M. Waltl, C. Timmerer: A Web Based Subjective Evaluation Platform
- K. Bombeke, J. Van Looy: The Development of a Free Stereopsis Test for Active Shutter Displays
- E. Masala, A. Servetti: Performance vs Quality of Experience in a Remote Control Application based on Real-Time 3D Video Feedback
- M. Pinson, C. Schmidmer, L. Janowski, R. Pépion, Q. Huynh-Thu, P. Corriveau, A. Younkin, P. Le Callet, M. Barkowsky, W. Ingram: Subjective and Objective Evaluation of an Audiovisual Subjective Dataset for Research and Development
- A. Floris, L. Atzori, G. Ginesu, D. Giusto: Reduced-Reference Quality Estimation for Rate Control in 3D Video Multicasting
- K. Vandenbroucke, K. De Moor, L. De Marez: Use- and QoE-related Aspects of Personal Cloud Applications: An Exploratory Survey
- D. Strohmeier, M. Mikkola, A. Raake: The Importance of Task Completion Times for Modeling Web-QoE of Consecutive Web Page Requests
- A. Sackl, P. Zwickl, P. Reichl: QoE Alchemy 2.0: An Improved Test Setup for the Pecuniary Bias of QoE
- T. Lukeš, K. Fliegel, M. Klíma: Performance Evaluation of Image Quality Metrics with Respect to their Use for Super-Resolution Enhancement
- B. Rainer, C. Timmerer: Adaptive Media Playout for Inter-Destination Media Synchronization
- J. Li, O. Kaller, F. De Simone, J. Hakala, D. Juszka, P. Le Callet: Cross-Lab Study on Preference of Experience in 3DTV: Influence from Display Technology and Test Environment
- C. Mantel, N. Burini, J. Korhonen, E. Nadernejad, S. Forchhammer: Quality Assessment of Images Displayed on LCD Screen with Local Backlight Dimming
- C. Mantel, S. Forchhammer, J. Korhonen: Reducing the Duration of Paired-Comparison Experiments for Visual Quality Assessment
Special Session #1 “QoE for Web and Cloud Applications”
Session Chair: Tobias Hoßfeld
- M. Seufert, M. Slanina, S. Egger, M. Kottkamp: “To Pool or not to Pool”: A Comparison of Temporal Pooling Methods for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
- C. Alberti, D. Renzi, C. Timmerer, C. Mueller, S. Lederer, S. Battista, M. Mattavelli: Automated QoE Evaluation of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
- A. Sackl, S. Egger, R. Schatz: Where’s the Music? Comparing the QoE Impact of Temporal Impairments between Music and Video Streaming
- M. Varela, T. Mäki, L. Skorin-Kapov, T. Hoßfeld: Towards an Understanding of Visual Appeal in Website Design
Special Session #2 “Experiencing Immersive Audio”
Session Chair: Karlheinz Brandenburg
- A. Raake, J. Blauert: Comprehensive Modeling of the Formation Process of Sound-Quality
- J. Nowak, J. Liebetrau, T. Sporer: On the Perception of Apparent Source Width and Listener Envelopment in Wave Field Synthesis
- S. Werner, J. Liebetrau: Effects of Shaping of Binaural Room Impulse Responses on Localization
- O. Rummukainen, J. Bolaños, V. Pulkki: Horizontal Localization of Auditory and Visual Events with Directional Audio Coding and 2D Video
Oral Session #2
Session Chair: Raimund Schatz
- E. Bosc, P. Hanhart, P. Le Callet, T. Ebrahimi: A Quality Assessment Protocol for Free-Viewpoint Video Sequences Synthesized from Decompressed Depth Data
- V. Kulyk, S. Tavakoli, M. Folkesson, K. Brunnström, K. Wang, N. Garcia: 3D Video Quality Assessment with Multi-Scale Subjective Method
- Y. Cao, C. Ritz, R. Raad: How much longer to go? The Influence of Waiting Time and Progress Indicators on Quality of Experience for Mobile Visual Search applied to Print Media
- J. Korhonen, C. Mantel, N. Burini, S. Forchhammer: Searching for the Preferred Backlight Intensity in Liquid Crystal Displays with Local Backlight Dimming
QUALINET Industry Forum and Expo
Session Chair: Judith Redi & Peter Schelkens
Invited talk:
- Thomas Richter on “HDR Image Quality in the Evolution of JPEG XT“
Demo papers:
- S. Kepplinger, F. Hofmeyer, M. Gründl: Development of a Binocular Eye Tracking System for Quality Assessment of S3D Representations
- M. Waltl, B. Rainer, S. Lederer, C. Timmerer, K. Gassner, R. Terlutter: A 4D Multimedia Player Enabling Sensory Experience
- A. Jain, C. Bal, T. Nguyen, TALLY: A Web-Based Subjective Testing Tool
Industry demo:
- J. Holub: MESAQIN.com s.r.o. (Ltd.), the laboratory for Measurement of Speech, Audio and Video Transmission Quality in Telecommunication Networks
Dataset session
Session Chair: Karel Fliegel
- N. Staelens, G. Van Wallendael, R. Van de Walle, F. De Turck, P. Demeester: High Definition H.264/AVC Subjective Video Database for Evaluating the Influence of Slice Losses on Quality Perception
- L. Xing, J. You, T. Ebrahimi, A. Perkis: Stereoscopic Quality Datasets under Various Test Conditions
- A. Jinda-Apiraksa, V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler: California-ND: An Annotated Dataset for Near-Duplicate Detection in Personal Photo Collections
Poster session #2 featuring Special Session #3 “Affect and Physiology in QoE Research”
Session Chair: Martin Varela
Special Session: Affect and Physiology in QoE Research
- J. Antons, F. Köster, S. Arndt, S. Möller, R. Schleicher: Changes of Vigilance Caused by Varying Bit Rate Conditions
- S. Arndt, J. Antons, R. Gupta, K. Laghari, R. Schleicher, S. Möller, T. Falk: Subjective Quality Ratings and Physiological Correlates of Synthesized Speech
- A. Weddle, H. Yu: How does Audio-Haptic Enhancement Influence Emotional Response to Mobile Media?
- L. Choi, L. Cormack, A. Bovik: On the Visibility of Flicker Distortions in Naturalistic Videos
Regular posters
- S. Wan, B. Chang, F. Yang: Viewing Experience of 3D Movie with Subtitles – Where to put Subtitles in a 3D Movie?
- M. Shahid, A. Rossholm, B. Lövström: A No-Reference Machine Learning Based Video Quality Predictor
- Y. Yuhong, Y. Hongjiang, H. Ruimin, W. Song, X. Songbo: A new Mobile Audio Quality Assessment using Jitter Distortion Measure Approach
- A. Redl, C. Keimel, K. Diepold: Saliency Based Video Quality Prediction Using Multi-Way Data Analysis
- M. Garcia, A. Raake, B. Feiten: Parametric Audio Quality Model for IPTV Services – ITU-T P.1201.2 Audio
- A. Borowiak, U. Reiter: Long Duration Audiovisual Content: Impact of Content Type and Impairment Appearance on User Quality Expectations over Time
- A. Winterlich, V. Zlokolica, P. Denny, L. Kilmartin, M. Glavin, E. Jones: A Saliency Weighted No-Reference Perceptual Blur Metric for the Automotive Environment
- S. Winkler, R. Subramanian: Overview of Eye Tracking Datasets
- L. Song, X. Tang, W. Zhang, X. Yang, P. Xia: The SJTU 4K Video Sequence Dataset
Oral Session #3
Session Chair: Ian Burnett
- A. Rehman, Z. Wang: Perceptual Experience of Time-varying Video Quality
- C. Timmerer, B. Rainer, M. Waltl: A Utility Model for Sensory Experience
- A. Verdolini, S. Petrangeli: A Smartphone Agent for QoE Evaluation and User Classification over Mobile Networks
- S. Möller, S. Schmidt, J. Beyer: Gaming Taxonomy: An Overview of Concepts and Evaluation Methods for Computer Gaming QoE