Comparison of blocking and blurring metrics for video compression

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Leontaris, Athanasios ^a   Reibman, Amy R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLURRING METRICS; OBJECTIVE FRAMEWORK; QUALITY METRICS;

DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 33646757549     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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