Editorial
Quality of multimedia experience
1 Qualcomm, Inc., Multimedia R&D, San Diego, CA, USA
2 School of ECEE, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA
3 Qualcomm, Strategic IP, San Diego, CA, USA
4 FUB, Rome, Italy
5 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and NTNU, Norway
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2012, 2012:5 doi:10.1186/1687-5281-2012-5
Published: 26 March 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Typically, multimedia-processing algorithms are evaluated using objective metrics or through subjective testing in a controlled environment. However, perceived user experience is psychological in nature and it changes in different environmental conditions and with different multimedia devices. Therefore, new techniques are needed to assess and enhance multimedia experience from the user perspective.
