Hybrid No-reference natural image quality assessment of noisy, blurry, JPEG2000, and JPEG images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2089-2098

  Shen, Ji ^a   Li, Qin ^a   Erlebacher, Gordon ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

curvelet; discrete cosine transform (DCT); image quality assessment (IQA); JPEG; JPEG2000; log probabilitydensity function (pdf); natural scene statistics (NSS); no reference(NR); noise; Terms Blur; wavelet.

Indexed keywords

CURVELETS; DISCRETE COSINES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); JPEG; JPEG 2000; LOG PROBABILITYDENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NO REFERENCE(NR); NOISE; TERMS-BLUR; WAVELET.;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; LIBRARIES; RATING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 79960495677     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2108661     Document Type: Article

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