Visual importance pooling for image quality assessment

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-201

  Moorthy, Anush Krishna ^a   Bovik, Alan Conrad ^a  

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

Author keywords

Image quality assessment (IQA); Quality based weighting; Structural similarity; Subjective quality assessment; Visual fixations

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); QUALITY-BASED WEIGHTING; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; VISUAL FIXATIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 63649162623     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2015374     Document Type: Article

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