No-reference visually significant blocking artifact metric for natural scene images

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1647-1652

  Suthaharan, Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking artifacts; JPEG compression; Natural scene images; Neural channels

Indexed keywords

BIT PATTERNS; BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; FOURIER DOMAINS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; JPEG COMPRESSION; LEAST SIGNIFICANT BITS; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; NEURAL CHANNELS; NO REFERENCES; SENSORY CHANNELS; SIMULATION RESULTS; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS; VISUAL INTERPRETATIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 64549120213     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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