Distortion Criteria of the Human Viewer

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1979, Pages 778-793

  Limb, John O ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PICTURE QUALITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TELEMETRY; TELEVISION; VISION;

EID: 0018654111     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1979.4310129     Document Type: Article

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