Quantifying the visual quality of wavelet-compressed images based on local contrast, visual masking, and global precedence

Conference Record of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1393-1397

  Chandler, Damon M ^a   Masry, Mark A ^a   Hemami, Sheila S ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL QUALITY; WAVELET BASED COMPRESSION;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 4143095182     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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