Toward a unified fidelity metric of still-coded images

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Saadane, AbdelHakim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; MASKING EFFECTS; PERCEPTUAL METRICS; UNIFIED FIDELITY METRIC;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; VISION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 34249060915     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2437728     Document Type: Article

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