Detectability and annoyance of synthetic blocky, blurry, noisy, and ringing artifacts

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 6 II, 2007, Pages 2954-2964

  Farias, Mylène C Q ^a   Foley, John M ^b   Mitra, Sanjit K ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Compression; MPEG; Video processing; Video quality assessment; Video quality metrics

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SYNTHETIC ARTIFACTS; TOTAL SQUARED ERROR; VIDEO PROCESSING; VIDEO QUALITY METRICS; VIDEO SEQUENCE;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 34249799603     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.893963     Document Type: Article

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