Quality assessment of deblocked images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-98

  Yim, Changhoon ^a   Bovik, Alan Conrad ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking effect; deblocking; distortion; image quality assessment; quantization

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING EFFECT; DEBLOCKING; DISTORTION; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUANTIZATION;

RATING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 79551528467     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2061859     Document Type: Article

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