No-reference JPEG-image quality assessment using GAP-RBF

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1493-1503

  Venkatesh Babu, R ^a   Suresh, S ^b   Perkis, Andrew ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blockiness measurement; GAP RBF; Image quality; JPEG; Neural network; No reference metric

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE CODING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS;

BLOCKINESS MEASUREMENTS; IMAGE EXTRACTION; NOREFERENCE METRICS (NR); PRUNING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 33847225254     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2006.12.014     Document Type: Article

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