ViProVoQ

Abstract

This paper presents a method for developing a consensus vocabulary to describe and evaluate the visual experience of videos. As a first result, a vocabulary characterizing the specific look of cinema-type video is presented. Such a vocabulary can be used to relate perceptual features of professional high-end image and video quality of experience (QoE) with the underlying technical characteristics and settings of the video systems involved in the creative content production process. For the vocabulary elicitation, a combination of different survey techniques was applied in this work. As the first step, individual interviews were conducted with experts of the motion picture industry on image quality in the context of cinematography. The data obtained from the interviews was used for the subsequent Real-time Delphi survey, where an extended group of experts worked out a consensus on key aspects of the vocabulary specification. Here, 33 experts were supplied with the anonymized results of the other panelists, which they could use to revise their own assessment. Based on this expert panel, the attributes collected in the interviews were verified and further refined, resulting in the final vocabulary proposed in this paper. Besides an attribute-based sensory evaluation of high-quality image, video and film material, applications of the vocabulary are the development of dimension-based image and video quality models, and the analysis of the multivariate relationship between quality-relevant perceptual attributes and technical system parameters.