Preface; Editor Bios; Contents; 1 Introduction: State of the Play and Challenges of Visual Quality Assessment; 1.1 Quality Assessments Based on Entropy and Rate-Distortion Theories; 1.1.1 Quality Assessment for Bitrate- and Quality-Driven Coding Designs; 1.1.2 Scales for Subjective Perceptual Distortion and Quality Measurement; 1.1.3 QoE in Perceptual-Based Visual Signal Coding; 1.2 Perception-Based Approaches to Picture Quality Assessment; 1.2.1 MSE/PSNR with Visual Weighting; 1.2.2 Visual Feature-Driven Quality Metrics; 1.2.3 Natural Scene Statistics Based Perceptual Metrics

1.2.3.1 Structure Similarity1.2.3.2 Visual Information Fidelity; 1.2.3.3 Texture Similarity; 1.2.4 HVS Model-Based Perceptual Distortion Metrics; 1.2.4.1 JND Models; 1.2.4.2 Multi-Channel Vision Model; 1.2.4.3 Suprathreshold Vision Models; 1.2.5 Light-Weight Bit-Stream-Based Models YangWan-bqa12,YangWanXie-nrqa10; 1.2.6 Perceptual Quality and Distortion Assessment of Audiovisual Signals; 1.2.7 Perceptual Quality/Distortion Assessment of 3-D/Multiview Visual Signals; 1.3 PDMs for RpDO in Visual Quality Regulated Services; 1.4 Summary and Remarks; References

2 How Passive Image Viewers Became Active Multimedia Users2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Subjective Assessment of Visual Quality; 2.2.1 Visual Quality Preference in Displays; 2.2.2 Visual Quality Preference of Processed Signals; 2.2.3 Subjective Assessment of Network-Related Impairments; 2.3 From Visual Quality to Quality of (Viewing) Experience; 2.3.1 Definition of QoE; 2.4 Influencing Factors of QoE; 2.4.1 System Factors; 2.4.1.1 Devices; 2.4.1.2 Signal and Network Variables; 2.4.2 User Factors; 2.4.2.1 Interest; 2.4.2.2 Personality; 2.4.2.3 Age/Gender; 2.4.2.4 Affect/Mood; 2.4.3 Contextual Factors

2.4.3.1 Physical Environment2.4.3.2 Economic Aspects; 2.4.3.3 Social Context; 2.5 Beyond Visual Quality: New Trends in Subjective QoE Assessment; 2.5.1 Beyond the Traditional Screen Technology: QoE of Immersive Viewing Experience; 2.5.2 Beyond Perception: The Role of Aesthetics and Emotion in QoE Appreciation; 2.5.3 Beyond Lab-Based Studies: Methodological Shifts for Reliable QoE Quantification; 2.5.3.1 Psychometric Methods for QoE Measurement; 2.5.3.2 Subjective Testing Outside the Lab; References; 3 Recent Advances in Image Quality Assessment; 3.1 Subjective Quality Assessment

3.1.1 Popular IQA Databases3.1.2 New Quality Database; 3.2 Objective Quality Assessment; 3.2.1 Classic Quality Metrics; 3.2.2 FR-IQA; 3.2.2.1 Scale Transform-Based FR-IQA; 3.2.2.2 Saliency-Based FR-IQA; 3.2.2.3 Gradient Magnitude-Based FR-IQA; 3.2.2.4 Other Model-Based FR-IQA; 3.2.3 RR-IQA; 3.2.4 NR-IQA; 3.3 Emerging Direction in Quality Assessment; 3.3.1 Comparative IQA; 3.3.2 Multiply Distorted Quality Assessment; 3.3.3 Contrast-Changed IQA; References; 4 Quality Assessment of Mobile Videos; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Subjective Quality Assessment of Mobile Videos