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Provisioning of digital video services is a difficult task as it is hard to estimate optimal settings of video parameters, given transmission constraints, while maximizing the overall end-user quality. With Internet streaming services becoming part of our everyday life, end-to-end optimization of such systems is important. On one hand, huge effort is given into subjective or objective evaluation of the end-user perception. High quality audiovisual perception with respect to the minimized costs of the provided service is one of the main interests for the network providers. On the other hand, subjective evaluations to determine best video and audio configurations are often evaluated in controlled test laboratory environments, which have little to do with the real ... toggle 4 keywords

quality of experience – crowdsourcing – social networking – subjective quality

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