An improved perception-based no-reference objective image sharpness metric using iterative edge refinement

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 401-404

  Varadarajan, Srenivas ^a   Karam, Lina J ^a  

^a AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; HVS; Image quality; Objective; Perception; Sharpness metric

Indexed keywords

BLURRED IMAGE; EDGE PIXELS; HVS; IMAGE SHARPNESS; NO REFERENCES; OBJECTIVE; OBJECTIVE METRICS; PERCEIVED SHARPNESS; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION ACCURACY; REFINEMENT ALGORITHMS; SHARPNESS METRIC;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METAL RECOVERY; METRIC SYSTEM; PIXELS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 69949165047     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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