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Reading the Fine Print: the Effect of Text Legibility on Perceived Video Quality in Mobile TV

Knoche, HO; McCarthy, JD; Sasse, MA; (2006) Reading the Fine Print: the Effect of Text Legibility on Perceived Video Quality in Mobile TV. In: Nahrstedt, Klara and Turk, Matthew, (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia - MM '06. (pp. pp. 727-730). ACM: USA: New York. Green open access

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Abstract

Mobile TV services are available in an increasing number of countries. For cost reasons, most of these services offer material directly recoded for mobile consumption (i.e. without additional editing). This paper reports the findings of a study on the influence of text legibility and quality on the perceived video quality of mobile TV content. The study, with 64 participants, examined responses to news footage presented at four image resolutions and seven video encoding bitrates. The results showed that a simulated separate delivery of a news ticker and other textual information significantly increased the perceived video quality of the entire screen for native speakers. In addition, some automatable changes to the layout of news content resulted in substantial increases in perceived video quality. The results can be used to quantify the perceived quality gains when considering text delivery separately from the video stream and in the development of more accurate multimedia quality models.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Reading the Fine Print: the Effect of Text Legibility on Perceived Video Quality in Mobile TV
Event: 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia - MM '06
ISBN: 1595934472
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/1180639.1180794
Publisher version: https://doi/org/10.1145/1180639.1180794
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060423
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