Abstract
Mobile 360° video streaming has grown significantly in popularity but the quality of experience (QoE) suffers from insufficient wireless network bandwidth. The state-of-The-Art solutions are limited by the temporal correlation assumption. Recent studies are aware of the potential of saliency to further QoE improvement, but several fundamental challenges about saliency judgment, saliency acquirement, and quality adaptation are still not fully addressed. To solve these challenges, we present SalientVR, a saliency-driven mobile 360° video streaming system integrated with gaze information. We design (i) a precise gaze-driven saliency judging criterion for mobile VR viewers, (ii) two pragmatic gaze-driven, tile-level saliency acquiring methods based on cross-user similarity and a specific content-Aware deep neural network respectively, and (iii) a lightweight saliency-Aware quality adaptation algorithm with a motion-Assisted online correction, which is robust to wireless bandwidth vagaries and saliency bias. Moreover, we contribute a gaze-Annotated dataset and a gaze-driven quality assessment metric for 360° videos. By extensive prototype evaluations (based on dataset tests and user studies), compared to alternatives, SalientVR significantly enhances the video quality and reduces the rebuffering ratio over 4G/LTE network emulations and in the wild, which achieves a 43.68% QoE improvement.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | ACM MobiCom 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 542-555 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450391818 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 14 2022 |
Event | 28th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2022 - Sydney, Australia Duration: Oct 17 2202 → Oct 21 2202 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM |
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Conference
Conference | 28th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2022 |
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Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Sydney |
Period | 10/17/02 → 10/21/02 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and shepherd for their thoughtful suggestions. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2020YFA0713900; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61772410, Grant 61802298, Grant 62172329, Grant U1811461, Grant 11690011, Grant U21A6005, Grant 62022005, and Grant 62061146001; and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2020T130513 and Grant 2019M663726.
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