Content Gazette - January 2016 - 29

Call for Papers
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Special Issue on Measuring Quality of Experience
for Advanced Media Technologies and Services
Progress in technology has led to a stunning increase in the quality of multimedia content over the past few
decades: Ultra-HD or 3D displays have become affordable nowadays, and high-definition streaming is
quickly replacing conventional media libraries at home as well as on mobile devices. At the same time,
quality considerations have become a lot more intricate because of the additional complexities in content
generation, processing, distribution, and display. The challenge of Quality of Experience (QoE)
measurement is taking into account not only system performance parameters and content quality metrics, but
also notions such as user perception, personality, satisfaction, expectations, and context. With the
exponentially growing amount of media being produced, shared, and consumed, as well as emerging new
forms of media technologies and services (e.g. light-field imaging, or advanced spatial audio), many
challenges remain in developing effective and practical subjective and objective QoE measurement methods.
We solicit original papers describing innovative techniques for measuring the quality of experience (QoE)
for multimedia content. Topics of interest include:
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New Technologies: spatial/3D audio quality; stereo/multi-view video quality; high-dynamic range
imaging; light-field imaging; holographic imaging; quality in immersive environments (virtual/
augmented/ mixed realities).
QoE for Mobile Devices: Quality evaluation for mobile devices; adaptive media streaming; impact
of viewing conditions, context and device properties, user behavior.
Interactive Systems QoE: Tele-conferencing/tele-presence; multimedia-based group inter-action;
online and cloud gaming; Web and social media applications.
Big data QoE analytics: Media streaming platforms such as Netflix, YouTube, etc.; crowdsourcing
studies; massive open online courses (MOOCs); online gaming; machine learning for QoE.
QoE Fundamentals: Understanding experience and quality formation; alternatives to mean opinion
score (MOS); quality vs. user satisfaction vs. acceptance; long-term quality measurement;
physiological QoE assessment; sensory user experiences.
Reproducible QoE Research: Benchmarking and certification; multimedia quality databases; testing
conditions and methods; standardization efforts; open-source QoE tools.

Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for
information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstspieee. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the standard IEEE process.
Important Dates:
Manuscript submission due:
First review completed:
Revised manuscript due:
Second review completed:
Final manuscript due:
Publication date:

March 1st, 2016
May 31st, 2016
July 15th, 2016
Sept. 1st, 2016
Oct. 15th, 2016
February 2017

Guest Editors:
Stefan Winkler, Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)/UIUC, Singapore (stefan.winkler@adsc.com.sg)
Chang Wen Chen, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA (chencw@buffalo.edu)
Alexander Raake, Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin, Germany (Alexander.Raake@telekom.de)
Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - iMinds, Belgium (Peter.Schelkens@vub.ac.be)
Lea Skorin-Kapov, Faculty of EE and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia (Lea.Skorin-Kapov@fer.hr)

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