Color distribution information for the reduced-reference assessment of perceived image quality

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1757-1769

  Redi, Judith A ^a   Gastaldo, Paolo ^b   Heynderickx, Ingrid ^a,c   Zunino, Rodolfo ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational intelligence; correlogram; image quality assessment

Indexed keywords

COLOR CORRELOGRAMS; COLOR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE; CORRELOGRAMS; DESCRIPTORS; DIGITAL BROADCASTING; DOUBLE LAYERS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; INTELLIGENCE MODELS; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; RECEIVED SIGNALS; REDUCED REFERENCE; SECOND LAYER; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; UNDISTORTED SIGNALS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; RATING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 79551593878     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2087456     Document Type: Article

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