A Perceptually Tuned Subband Image Coder Based on the Measure of Just-Noticeable-Distortion Profile

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 467-476

  Chou, Chun Hsien ^a   Li, Yun Chin ^a  

^a TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODING ERRORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REDUNDANCY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; STANDARDS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

JUST NOTICEABLE DISTORTION PROFILE; PEAK SIGNAL TO PERCEPTIBLE NOISE RATIO; PERCEPTUAL REDUNDANCY; SUBBAND IMAGE CODER; TEXTURE MASKING EFFECT;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0029517251     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: 15582205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.475889     Document Type: Article

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