Objective quality assessment of color images based on a generic perceptual reduced reference

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 239-256

  Carnec, Mathieu ^a   Le Callet, Patrick ^a   Barba, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Human visual system; Image quality; Image quality assessment; Reduced reference; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL TESTING; VISUAL SERVOING;

COLOR IMAGES; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REDUCED REFERENCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 43449086679     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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