Reduced-reference image quality assessment using divisive normalization-based image representation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-211

  Li, Qiang ^a   Wang, Zhou ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Divisive normalization; Image quality assessment; Perceptual image representation; Reduced reference image quality assessment (RRIQA); Statistical image modeling

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

DIVISIVE NORMALIZATION; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION; REDUCED-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (RRIQA); STATISTICAL IMAGE MODELING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 63649111774     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2014497     Document Type: Article

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