Perceptual quality metrics applied to still image compression

Signal Processing

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-200

  Eckert, Michael P ^a   Bradley, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Canon Info Syst Research Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image compression; Objective image quality; Perceptual model; Quality metric

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTUAL QUALITY METRICS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0032202314     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(98)00124-8     Document Type: Article

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