Structural similarity quality metrics in a coding context: Exploring the space of realistic distortions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6057, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Brooks, Alan C ^a   Pappas, Thrasyvoulos N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error concealment; Human perception; Image quality; Structural similarity; Video coding; Video compression

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ERROR CONCEALMENT; HUMAN PERCEPTION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33645529356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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