Psychovisually tuned attribute operators for pre-processing digital video

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 277-286

  Young, N ^a   Evans, A N ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; SENSORS;

CAMERA SENSORS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM (HVS);

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0345357205     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20030768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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