Quality image metrics for synthetic images based on perceptual color differences

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 961-971

  Albin, Stephane ^a   Rougeron, Gilles ^a   Péroche, Bernard ^a,b   Trémeau, Alain ^c  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Colorimetry; Difference metric; Image quality; Rendering; Synthetic images; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE DISTANCE MAP; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY FUNCTION; DIFFERENCE METRIC; IMAGE RENDERING PROCESS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0036709017     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.802544     Document Type: Article

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