Visual distortion gauge based on discrimination of noticeable contrast changes

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 900-909

  Lin, Weisi ^a   Dong, Li ^b   Xue, Ping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Edge contrast increase; Human visual system (HVS); Just noticeable difference (JND); Perceptual visual quality; Subjective quality ratings

Indexed keywords

EDGE CONTRAST INCREASE; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS (HVS); JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE (JND); PERCEPTUAL VISUAL QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY RATINGS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; GAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISIBILITY; VISION;

SIGNAL DISTORTION;

EID: 23744512091     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.848345     Document Type: Article

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