Full reference image quality assessment based on saliency map analysis

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 0305031-03050314

  Tong, Yubing ^a   Konik, Hubert ^a   Cheikh, Faouzi A ^b   Tremeau, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE IMAGES; DISTORTED IMAGES; FACE DETECTION; GLOBAL QUALITY; HIGH-LEVEL FEATURES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; MIXED MODELS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; REFERENCE IMAGE; SALIENCY MAP; SALIENCY MAP MODEL; SALIENT REGIONS; VARIABLE WEIGHT;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 77954527687     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2352/J.lmagingSci.Technol.2010.54.3.030503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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