Mean Time Between Visible Artifacts in Visual Communications

To my parents and my sister i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank my advisor, Dr. Nikil Jayant for teaching me how to be successful in the technological world, and for having complete faith in me right from the start to the finish of my PhD, and beyond. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my committee members, Dr. Constantine Dovrolis for being an integral part of my doctoral degree. I wish to thank Dr. Jayant again, for being an expert at choosing his co-workers. I am grateful to Barbara for setting an excellent example by being highly efficient and organized, and for being the gregarious person that helped me in my subjective experiments and scheduling issues. I am also thankful to Rex for helping in just about every technical aspect of my projects. I would like to thank Tina for organizing all the monetary issues related to my studies and company work. I had quite a bit of travel during my studies, and I am thankful to JoAnna for making sure that my trips were smooth. I would like to thank Pravin for being a keystone player in the development of the technology in the company that our team started up. I am grateful to Roberto and the other people from Venture lab for having faith in our capabilities. I would like to thank all my friends in the GCATT building-Arumugam, Babak, Jeannie, Nicolas, Rafi and Souvik, for being excellent peers. I would like to make a special mention of Parashuram and Yogesh, who have stuck with me since long before coming to Georgia Tech, enough to have made a significant impact on my personal and professional life. Last, but definitely not the least, I thank my family-my parents and my sister for always having believed in me and providing a constant source of encouragement. They made all this effort worth it.