A semantic no-reference image sharpness metric based on top-down and bottom-up saliency map modeling

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1553-1556

  Zhong, Sheng Hua ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Chung, Fu Lai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Image quality assessment; No reference; Top down bottom up saliency map

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EYE-TRACKING; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; MODEL-BASED; NO REFERENCES; SALIENCY MAP; SEMANTIC LEVELS; TOPDOWN; VISUAL FEATURE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 78651076744     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5653807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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