Hybrid Reduced-Reference Video Quality Assessment of Streaming Services Over Reliable Transport

As multimedia programs are increasingly being consumed using OTT services, quality monitoring has become an important issue. Furthermore, there is a trade-off between video quality and bandwidth consumption in OTT streaming services. In such streaming services, it is essential to provide satisfactory QoE without over-using network resources. In this paper, we propose a hybrid reduced-reference video quality metric for streaming services. The hybrid metric uses some codec-parameters along with decoded video signals. The proposed method was tested with UHD video sequences and also independently tested using new test datasets. The proposed method was also evaluated for long video signals with adaptive streaming services. The proposed method showed good performance compared to traditional full reference video quality methods.