QoE for Multimedia Communications (Acronym: QoEIG)

Chair: Lingfen Sun, University of Plymouth, UK
Vice-chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Advisor: Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA

IG Scope:

The QoE for Multimedia Communications Interest Group (QoEIG) of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MCTC) promotes research and development in a new and emerging area of Quality of Experience (QoE) for multimedia (e.g. speech, audio and video) communications and multimedia services (e.g. VoIP, IPTV and 3DTV). It aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss relevant topics and exchange views on the important issues of QoE provisioning, and/or QoE assessment, prediction, control and management. It will assist the IEEE MCTC by organizing and supporting ComSoc-sponsored conferences and workshops, and special issues of relevant journals. The technical topics of QoEIG will span, but not limited to the following:

Definition of QoE (Quality of Experience) for multimedia applications/services
QoE assessment/prediction methods for multimedia services (e.g. VoIP, IPTV, HDTV and 3DTV)
Quality evaluation of interactive and multiparty communication services (e.g. audio and video-conferencing, and emerging virtual chat rooms)
Subjective methodologies and tests for QoE (e.g. MOS tests for speech, audio, video, audiovisual, or 3D audio/video applications)
Objective methodologies and measurement for QoE (e.g. speech, audio, video, audiovisual or multimodal)
Databases and validation of objective models
Online and offline QoE monitoring schemes
QoE provisioning for multimedia communications over fixed and mobile networks
QoE management solutions
QoE adaptation and control mechanisms (e.g. QoE control in content management or QoE control for computer graphic synthetic image composition).
QoE-based multimedia networking
Influencing policy making and participating to standardization