Perceptual image quality assessment: Recent progress and trends

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7744, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lin, Weisi ^a   Narwaria, Manish ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Engineering approach; Feature pooling; Image quality assessment

Indexed keywords

FEATURE POOLING; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; IN-LINE; MACHINE-LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE QUALITY; RECENT PROGRESS; RECENT TRENDS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; VISUAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

COMMUNICATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOTION COMPENSATION; RATING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 78649798027     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.863462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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