How to assess the quality of experience for immersive visual systems is critical for system design. However, such modalities require specifically designed methodologies. For instance, for light field imaging, the IEEE Recommended Practice for the quality assessment of light field imaging presented methods of quality assessment of light field imaging based on psycho-physical studies, defined metrics for the quality assessment and established criteria for subjective assessment of light field imaging, including human factors and judgments, and identifies and quantifies quality degradation including the impact of visual contents, camera settings, compression distortion, interpolation distortion by intermediate view rendering, and structural distortion. Other standardization bodies (e.g., ISO) are addressing also other modalities (e.g., point clouds). The talk will present the status on this topic, with specific research examples.

About Maria Martini

Maria Martini, Ph.D is full professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment, leads the Wireless Multimedia Networking Research Group and is MSc Field Leader. She received the Laurea in electronic engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 1998 and the PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2002. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Maria has led the Kingston University team in national and international research projects funded by the European Commission (e.g. OPTIMIX, CONCERTO, QoE-NET, Qualinet), UK research councils (e.g. EPSRC, British Council, Royal Society), Innovate UK, and international industries. IEEE Senior Member (since 2007), Associate Editor (senior) for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2018–2021) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2014–2018), she was lead guest editor for the IEEE JSAC special issue on “QoE-aware wireless multimedia systems” and editor for, e.g. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Multimedia, Int. Journal on Telemedicine and Applications. She is currently TPC chair for QoMEX 2026 and IEEE MMSP 2026. Maria is an Expert Evaluator and Panel Member for the European Commission and national research councils (e.g. EPSRC and MRC in the UK). She was lead editor (2008–2010) of the Strategic Applications Agenda on mobile health and inclusion applications in the e-Mobility European Technology Platform. She is part of the NetWorld2020 ETP Expert Group, a Board member of the Video Quality Expert Group (VQEG) and a member of the IEEE Multimedia Communications technical committee, having served as vice-chair (2014–2016), chair (2012–2014) of the 3D Rendering, Processing, Communications Interest Group, key member of the QoE and multimedia streaming IG. Maria’s research interests include wireless multimedia networks, video quality assessment, decision theory, machine learning, neuromorphic sensing and computing, and medical applications. She authored about 200 international scientific articles and book sections, international patents, and contributions to international standards (IEEE and ITU). She is named in the Stanford University list of the world’s top 2% of scientists.

This event will be conducted in English