Image quality assessment based on multiscale geometric analysis

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1409-1423

  Gao, Xinbo ^a   Lu, Wen ^a   Tao, Dacheng ^b   Li, Xuelong ^c  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity function (CSF); Human visual system (HVS); Image quality assessment (IQA); Just noticeable difference (JND); Multiscale geometric analysis (MGA); Reduced reference (RR)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY FUNCTION (CSF); HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM (HVS); IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE (JND); MULTISCALE GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS (MGA); REDUCED-REFERENCE (RR);

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STANDARDS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 67649861051     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2018014     Document Type: Article

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