Video quality assessment based on structural distortion measurement

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-132

  Wang, Zhou ^a,b,e   Lu, Ligang ^c   Bovik, Alan C ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Error sensitivity; Human visual system; Image quality assessment; Structural distortion; Video quality assessment; Video quality experts group (VQEG)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MEAN SQUARED ERROR (MSE); STRUCTURAL DISTORTION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0348170824     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(03)00076-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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