Subjective Assessment of Stored Media Synchronization Quality in the VTR Algorithm

Fadiga KALADJI  Yutaka ISHIBASHI  Shuji TASAKA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E82-B   No.1   pp.24-33
Publication Date: 1999/01/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Communication Networks and Services
Keyword: 
media synchronization,  stored media,  delay jitter,  subjective assessment,  experimentation,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents results of subjective assessment of the media synchronization quality in the virtual-time rendering (VTR) media synchronization algorithm. For the assessment, stored voice and video streams were transmitted as two separate transport streams from a source to a destination on various traffic conditions in an experimental system. At the destination, they were output after synchronization control. We subjectively assessed the quality of media synchronization in a systematic way. This paper examines the effects of the difference between methods of recovery from asynchrony on the media synchronization quality. The paper also clarifies the relationships between the subjective and objective performance measures. Furthermore, it examines the effect of the difference in scene between media streams and that of the modification of the target output time on the media synchronization quality.