Enhancing the quality of video in a synchronous E-learning tool by taking into account the concepts of change-blindness

  • Authors:
  • Aruna Thakur;Benn Lines;Paul Reynolds

  • Affiliations:
  • Network Research Group, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom;Network Research Group, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom;Orange, SA, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • DIWEB'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Distance Learning and Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Change blindness is the inability to note large changes in two similar photos or video sequences. In the last decade research carried out to understand this phenomenon has given a new understanding of human perceptual system. This understanding can help in solving some of the problems associated with the transmission of video in a synchronous e-learning tool. The paper describes (a) cinematic principles in recording lectures; (b) the concept of change blindness; (c) the ways its understanding can help in making the presentation of video more engrossing; (d) the guidelines it can provide to remove redundant data and enhance the quality of important sections of the video frame so as to improve the transmission of video; and (e) proposed scheme to stream video sequence having optimum perceptual quality by dynamically controlling frame rate and resolution, taking into considerations the concepts of change blindness.