Nowadays, 360° video/image has been increasingly popular and drawn great attention. The
spherical viewing range of 360° video/image accounts for huge data, which pose the …

Abstract The commercialization of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets has made immersive and
360-degree video streaming the subject of intense interest in the industry and research …

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based virtual reality image quality
assessment method that automatically predicts the visual quality of an omnidirectional …

Recently an impressive development in immersive technologies, such as Augmented
Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 video, has been witnessed. However, methods for …

Objective quality assessment plays a crucial role in the evaluation and optimization
processes of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, for which state-of-the-art objective quality …

Video livestreaming is gaining prevalence among video streaming service s, especially for
the delivery of live, high motion content such as sport ing events. The quality of the se …

image can be represented with different formats, such as the equirectangular projection
(ERP) image, viewport images or spherical image, for its different processing procedures …

Omnidirectional (or 360°) images and videos are emergent signals being used in many
areas, such as robotics and virtual/augmented reality. In particular, for virtual reality …

In Virtual Reality (VR), the requirements of much higher resolution and smooth viewing
experiences under rapid and often real-time changes in viewing direction, leads to …

Omnidirectional images (also referred to as static 360 panoramas) impose viewing
conditions much different from those of regular 2D images. How do humans perceive image …