A method of estimating coding PSNR using quantized DCT coefficients

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-258

  Ichigaya, Atsuro ^a,b,c   Kurozumi, Masaaki ^a,b,d   Hara, Naohiro ^a,b   Nishida, Yukihiro ^a,b,d   Nakasu, Eisuke ^a,b  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^b VRSJ ^*  (Japan)

^c Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) of Japan   (Japan)

^d Japan Broadcasting Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients; Laplacian distribution; MPEG 2 bit stream; Peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR); Quantization

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT) COEFFICIENTS; LAPLACIAN DISTRIBUTION; QUANTIZATION;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; IMAGE CODING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 33144477928     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.858745     Document Type: Article

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