Coded image quality assessment based on a new contrast masking model

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 341-348

  Bekkat, Nachida ^a   Saadane, Abdelhakin ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METRICS; CONTRAST MASKING MODEL; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 2342557966     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1666872     Document Type: Article

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