Visual equivalence: Towards a new standard for image fidelity

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ramanarayanan, Ganesh ^a   Ferwerda, James ^a   Walter, Bruce ^a   Bala, Kavita ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance; Human visual system; Perception

Indexed keywords

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; ILLUMINATION MAPS; IMAGE FIDELITY; VISUAL EQUIVALENCE PREDICTORS (VEP);

GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHTING; VISION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34547679821     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1276377.1276472     Document Type: Article

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