No-reference image quality assessment in contourlet domain

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 4-6, 2010, Pages 784-794

  Lu, Wen ^a   Zeng, Kai ^a   Tao, Dacheng ^b   Yuan, Yuan ^c   Gao, Xinbo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contourlets; Image modeling; Image quality assessment; No reference

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED IMAGES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTOURLET COEFFICIENTS; CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; CONTOURLETS; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; IMAGE MODELING; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; JPEG 2000; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NO REFERENCES; STATISTICAL MODELS; SUB-BANDS; VISUAL QUALITIES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 75749156539     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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