Visibility of wavelet quantization noise

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1164-1175

  Watson, Andrew B ^a   Yang, Gloria Y ^b   Solomon, Joshua A ^a   Villasenor, John ^b,c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

Discrete wavelet transform; Image compression; Quantization; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM (DWT); NOISE DETECTION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0031195327     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.605413     Document Type: Article

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