Reduced-reference image quality assessment using reorganized DCT-based image representation

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 824-829

  Ma, Lin ^a   Li, Songnan ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Ngan, King Ngi ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

City block distance; generalized Gaussian density (GGD); human visual system (HVS); image quality assessment (IQA); reduced reference (RR)

Indexed keywords

CITY-BLOCK DISTANCES; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DENSITY; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); REDUCED- REFERENCE (RR);

IMAGE QUALITY; RATING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 79960695107     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2109701     Document Type: Article

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