Postprocessing of low bit-rate block DCT coded images based on a fields of experts prior

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2743-2751

  Sun, Deqing ^a   Cham, Wai Kuen ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Fields of experts (FoE); Markov random field (MRF); Postprocessing; Quantization noise

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LOW BIT RATES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; POSTPROCESSING; QUANTIZATION NOISE;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 36348994477     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.904969     Document Type: Article

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