Suprathreshold visual psychophysics and structure-based visual masking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6077, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hemami, Sheila S ^a   Chandler, Damon M ^a   Chern, Bobbie G ^a   Moses, Jeri Anne ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Masked detection; Summation; Supra threshold distortion; Visual psychophysics; Wavelet image compression

Indexed keywords

MASKED DETECTION; SUMMATION; SUPRA-THRESHOLD DISTORTION; VISUAL PSYCHOPHYSICS; WAVELET IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 33646010630     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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