No-reference perceptual image quality metric using gradient profiles for JPEG2000

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 502-516

  Liang, Luhong ^a   Wang, Shiqi ^c   Chen, Jianhua ^b   Ma, Siwei ^c   Zhao, Debin ^d   Gao, Wen ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Blur; Gradient profile; Image compression; JPEG2000; Perceptual quality; Ringing

Indexed keywords

BLUR; GRADIENT PROFILE; JPEG2000; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; RINGING;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 77955712716     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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