Image quality and entropy masking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3016, Issue , 1997, Pages 2-12

  Watson, Andrew B ^a   Borthwick, Robert ^b   Taylor, Mathias ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Foothill College   (United States)

Author keywords

Background; Contrast gain control; DCTune; Entropy masking; Image compression; Noise; Normalization; Pattern recognition; Signal detection theory; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ENTROPY; GAIN CONTROL; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACKGROUND; CONTRAST GAIN CONTROL; DCTUNE; ENTROPY MASKING; NOISE; NORMALIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; SPATIAL VISION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 58749089679     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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