Modern image quality assessment

Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-156

  Wang, Zhou ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational vision; Computer vision; Image quality assessment; Perceptual image processing; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL VISION; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE PROCESSING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 33845741726     PISSN: 15598136     EISSN: 15598144     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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