Quality measurement and use of pre-processing in image compression

Signal Processing

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-229

  Algazi, V Ralph ^a   Avadhanam, Niranjan ^a   Estes Jr , Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding performance; Human vision system; Image quality; JPEG; Objective quality; Perceived distortions; Pre processing; Threshold perception; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY;

JOINT PICTURES EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) STANDARDS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0032202513     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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