No-reference image quality assessment based on DCT domain statistics

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 822-833

  Brandão, Tomás ^a,b   Queluz, Maria Paula ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DCT coefficient statistics; Image quality; No reference quality metric; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; LAPLACE EQUATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DOMAIN STATISTICS; IMAGE EVALUATION; QUANTIZATION NOISE;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 37749001118     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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