Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey
The recent advancements in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have a substantial impact on modern day technology by digitizing each and everything related to human life and open the doors to the next generation Software Technology (Soft Tech). VR and AR technology provide a...
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| description | The recent advancements in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have a substantial impact on modern day technology by digitizing each and everything related to human life and open the doors to the next generation Software Technology (Soft Tech). VR and AR technology provide astonishing immersive contents with the help of high quality stitched panoramic contents and 360° imagery that widely used in the education, gaming, entertainment, and production sector. The immersive quality of VR and AR contents are greatly dependent on the perceptual quality of panoramic or 360° images, in fact a minor visual distortion can significantly degrade the overall quality. Thus, to ensure the quality of constructed panoramic contents for VR and AR applications, numerous Stitched Image Quality Assessment (SIQA) methods have been proposed to assess the quality of panoramic contents before using in VR and AR. In this survey, we provide a detailed overview of the SIQA literature and exclusively focus on objective SIQA methods presented till date. For better understanding, the objective SIQA methods are classified into two classes namely Full-Reference SIQA and No-Reference SIQA approaches. Each class is further categorized into traditional and deep learning-based methods and examined their performance for SIQA task. Further, we shortlist the publicly available benchmark SIQA datasets and evaluation metrices used for quality assessment of panoramic contents. In last, we highlight the current challenges in this area based on the existing SIQA methods and suggest future research directions that need to be target for further improvement in SIQA domain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c81131539f754702816ee1b1308e128f2022-12-22T00:56:13ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware2096-57962022-06-0143223246Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective SurveyHayat Ullah0Sitara Afzal1Imran Ullah Khan2Department of Computer Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA; Corresponding author.Department of Software, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Software, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Republic of KoreaThe recent advancements in the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have a substantial impact on modern day technology by digitizing each and everything related to human life and open the doors to the next generation Software Technology (Soft Tech). VR and AR technology provide astonishing immersive contents with the help of high quality stitched panoramic contents and 360° imagery that widely used in the education, gaming, entertainment, and production sector. The immersive quality of VR and AR contents are greatly dependent on the perceptual quality of panoramic or 360° images, in fact a minor visual distortion can significantly degrade the overall quality. Thus, to ensure the quality of constructed panoramic contents for VR and AR applications, numerous Stitched Image Quality Assessment (SIQA) methods have been proposed to assess the quality of panoramic contents before using in VR and AR. In this survey, we provide a detailed overview of the SIQA literature and exclusively focus on objective SIQA methods presented till date. For better understanding, the objective SIQA methods are classified into two classes namely Full-Reference SIQA and No-Reference SIQA approaches. Each class is further categorized into traditional and deep learning-based methods and examined their performance for SIQA task. Further, we shortlist the publicly available benchmark SIQA datasets and evaluation metrices used for quality assessment of panoramic contents. In last, we highlight the current challenges in this area based on the existing SIQA methods and suggest future research directions that need to be target for further improvement in SIQA domain.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096579622000262Virtual realityAugmented realityPanoramic imageImmersive contentsStitched image quality assessmentDeep learning |
| spellingShingle | Hayat Ullah Sitara Afzal Imran Ullah Khan Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware Virtual reality Augmented reality Panoramic image Immersive contents Stitched image quality assessment Deep learning |
| title | Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey |
| title_full | Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey |
| title_fullStr | Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey |
| title_short | Perceptual Quality Assessment of Panoramic Stitched Contents for Immersive Applications: A Prospective Survey |
| title_sort | perceptual quality assessment of panoramic stitched contents for immersive applications a prospective survey |
| topic | Virtual reality Augmented reality Panoramic image Immersive contents Stitched image quality assessment Deep learning |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096579622000262 |
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