A new sharpness metric based on local kurtosis, edge and energy information

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-161

  Caviedes, Jorge ^a   Oberti, Franco ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edge profile sharpness; No reference sharpness metric; Objective image quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EDGE PROFILE SHARPNESS; SHARPNESS METRICS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0346280002     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2003.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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