Image quality evaluation based on recognition times for fast image browsing applications

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 320-331

  Schilling, Dirck ^b,c   Cosman, Pamela C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ViaSat   (United States)

Author keywords

Human image recognition; Image quality evaluation; Multiresolution coding; Progressive image coding; Wavelet zerotree coding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE BROWSING; WAVELET ZEROTREE CODING;

ALGORITHMS; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0036754697     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2002.802844     Document Type: Article

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