Issues in the design of a no-reference metric for perceived blur

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7867, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liu, Hantao ^a   Heynderickx, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edge; Image quality assessment; Objective metric; Perceived blur; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EDGE; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; OBJECTIVE METRIC; PERCEIVED BLUR; VISUAL ATTENTION;

DESIGN;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 79951818240     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.873277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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