Effects of natural images on the detectability of simple and compound wavelet subband quantization distortions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1164-1180

  Chandler, Damon M ^a   Hemami, Sheila S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

QUANTIZATION DISTORTIONS;

VISION;

EID: 0041573413     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.001164     Document Type: Article

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