Characterization of human visual sensitivity for video imaging applications

Signal Processing

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-269

  Van Den Branden Lambrecht, Christian J ^a,b   Kunt, Murat ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital video; MPEG; Test measurement; Vision model; Vision science

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS; VISION;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032094457     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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