Correlating degradation models and image quality metrics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6815, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Reed, Darrin K ^a   Smith, Elisa H Barney ^a  

^a Boise State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilevel image; Degradation model; Edge spread; Quality metrics; Synthetic word images

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

BILEVEL IMAGE; DEGRADATION MODELS; EDGE SPREAD; QUALITY METRICS; SYNTHETIC WORD IMAGES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 41149175964     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.766784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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