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Are people pixel-peeping 360° videos?
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2019.10.IQSP-220  Published OnlineJanuary 2019
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In this paper, we compare the influence of a higherresolution Head-Mounted Display (HMD) like HTC Vive Pro on 360° video QoE to that obtained with a lower-resolution HMD like HTC Vive. Furthermore, we evaluate the difference in perceived quality for entertainment-type 360° content in 4K/6K/8K resolutions at typical high-quality bitrates. In addition, we evaluate which video parts people are focusing on while watching omnidirectional videos. To this aim we conducted three subjective tests. We used HTC Vive in the first and HTC Vive Pro in the other two tests. The results from our tests are showing that the higher resolution of the Vive Pro seems to enable people to more easily judge the quality, shown by a minor deviation between the resulting quality ratings. Furthermore, we found no significant difference between the quality scores for the highest bitrate for 6K and 8K resolution. We also compared the viewing behavior for the same content viewed for the first time with the behavior when the same content is viewed again multiple times. The different representations of the contents were explored similarly, probably due to the fact that participants are finding and comparing specific parts of the 360° video suitable for rating the quality.

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Stephan Fremerey, Rachel Huang, Steve Göring, Alexander Raake, "Are people pixel-peeping 360° videos?in Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Image Quality and System Performance XVI,  2019,  pp 220-1 - 220-7,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2019.10.IQSP-220

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