A universal, reference-free blurriness measure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7867, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Chunhua ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Bloom, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a Dialogic Media Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

Blurriness; Gradient image; Markov chain; Perceptual quality assessment; Transition probability

Indexed keywords

BLURRINESS; GRADIENT IMAGES; MARKOV CHAIN; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; TRANSITION PROBABILITY;

IMAGE QUALITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; RATING;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 79951834310     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.872477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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