Spatio-temporal just noticeable distortion profile for grey scale image/video in DCT domain

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-346

  Wei, Zhenyu ^a   Ngan, King N ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity function (CSF); Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Gamma correction; Just noticeable distortion (JND)

Indexed keywords

CLUTCHES; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE CODING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY;

BLOCK CLASSIFICATIONS; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY FUNCTION (CSF); DCT DOMAINS; ERROR PROTECTIONS; GAMMA CORRECTION; GREY SCALE; HUMAN EYES; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING; JUST-NOTICEABLE DISTORTION (JND); MASKING EFFECTS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTIONS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITIES; PERCEPTUAL REDUNDANCIES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; REDUNDANCY INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL CONTRASTS; SPATIO TEMPORALS; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; VIDEO IMAGES;

COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 63349100565     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2013518     Document Type: Article

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