Attributes of image quality for color prints

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Pedersen, Marius ^a   Bonnier, Nicolas ^b   Hardeberg, Jon Yngve ^a   Albregtsen, Fritz ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Oce Print Logic Technologies   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; COLOR PRINTS; COMPLEX TASK; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES;

COLOR; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COLOR PRINTING; IMAGE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77957239780     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3277145     Document Type: Article

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