Studying the effect of optimizing the image quality in saliency regions at the expense of background content

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7529, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Alers, Hani ^a   Liu, Hantao ^a   Redi, Judith ^b   Heynderickx, Ingrid ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Image quality; Region of interest; Saliency

Indexed keywords

EYE TRACKING; IMAGE REGIONS; IMAGE SIGNAL; OVERALL QUALITY; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PROCESSED IMAGES; QUALITY LEVELS; REGION OF INTEREST; SIDE EFFECT;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 77049104687     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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