Quality of Experience for Telemedicine

The objective is to develop and validate a system capable of providing useful parameters to assess the video/audio quality of a multimedia application, equipment or system as it would be perceived by the target user, especially for media transmitted through satellite networks. Considering the crucial role of video and audio data in many systems developed within ESA projects (e.g. tele-diagnostic though transmission of ultrasound exams, tele-assisted surgery, distance learning via satellite with medical videos, etc), assessing the quality of video/audio parameters is of utmost importance for qualifying systems, in particular when video/audio data can have an impact on human lives, such as for above-mentioned telemedical systems.