No reference video quality estimation based on human visual system for 2.5/3G devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5666, Issue , 2005, Pages 168-179

  Massidda, Francesco ^a   Giusto, Daniele D ^a   Perra, Cristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human Visual System; No reference; Visual quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISION;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE MASKING; NO-REFERENCE; VISUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 21944438757     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.594032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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