Quality assessment of false-colored fused displays

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 883-894

  Dixon, Timothy D ^a   Canga, Eduardo Fernández ^b   Nikolov, Stavri G ^b   Troscianko, Tom ^a   Noyes, Jan M ^a   Bull, Dave K ^b   Canagarajah, C Nishan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Communications Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational metrics; False contouring; Image fusion; JPEG2000 compression; Psychophysical testing; Subjective quality

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; EXPERIMENTS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; HUMAN REACTION TIME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTATIONAL METRICS; FALSE CONTOURING; JPEG2000 COMPRESSION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TESTING; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 34548085195     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2372422     Document Type: Article

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