Image enhancement in the JPEG domain for people with vision impairment

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2013-2023

  Tang, Jinshan ^a,b,c,d,e   Kim, Jeonghoon ^a,f,g,h   Peli, Eli ^{a,e,i,j,k,l,m}  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^g SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^h Shinhan University   (South Korea)

ⁱ TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^j NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^k TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m Society for Information Display   (United States)

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Author keywords

DCT; DCT filtering; Image enhancement; JPEG; Quantization table; Television; Vision impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICRAFTS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM DOMAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; VISION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER TERMINALS; HUMANS; HYPERMEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEVISION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION, LOW; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 6344282523     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.834264     Document Type: Article

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