Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5666, Issue , 2005, Pages 149-159

  Wang, Zhou ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HISTOGRAMS; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; REDUCED-REFERENCE (RR) IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WAVELET-TRANSFORM DOMAIN;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 21944449269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.597306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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