DCT quantization noise in compressed images

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-38

  Robertson, Mark A ^a,b   Stevenson, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed image post processing; DCT quantization noise; Discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient distributions; Image restoration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

COMPRESSED IMAGE POST-PROCESSING; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT) COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; QUANTIZATION NOISE;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 12344316797     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.839995     Document Type: Article

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