Gaze tracking for region of interest coding in JPEG 2000

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 359-377

  Nguyen, Anthony ^a   Chandran, Vinod ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Image coding; Importance map; JPEG 2000; Region of interest (ROI)

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; VISION;

EYE TRACKING; IMPORTANCE MAP; JPEG 2000; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 33646505321     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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