Blind blur assessment for vision-based applications

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 231-241

  Wu, Shiqian ^a   Lin, Weisi ^b   Xie, Shoulie ^a   Lu, Zhongkang ^a   Ong, Ee Ping ^a   Yao, Susu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blind image quality evaluation; Blur identification; Blur model; Edge detection; Image interpolation; Line spread function; Point spread function; Radon transform

Indexed keywords

BLIND IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION; BLUR IDENTIFICATION; BLUR MODEL; IMAGE INTERPOLATION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; RADON TRANSFORM;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADON;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 67349252825     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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