Quality evaluation of motion-compensated edge artifacts in compressed video

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 943-956

  Leontaris, Athanasios ^a   Cosman, Pamela C ^b   Reibman, Amy R ^c  

^a DOLBY LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Added high frequency energy; Blocking artifacts; Blur; Motion compensated edge artifact; Objective metrics; Paired comparison; Subjective tests; Thurstone's law; Video compression; Video quality assessment

Indexed keywords

DECODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION COMPENSATION; PIXELS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; ENERGY-BASED APPROACH; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF) ENERGY;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34047215889     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.891778     Document Type: Article

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