Image quality assessment based on a degradation model

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 636-650

  Damera Venkata, Niranjan ^a,b   Kite, Thomas D ^d   Geisler, Wilson S ^c   Evans, Brian L ^a,b   Bovik, Alan C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d Audio Precision   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL VISION; DEGRADATION MODEL; FREQUENCY DISTORTION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ASSESSMENT; NOISE QUALITY MEASURE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033879938     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.841940     Document Type: Article

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