Image quality assessment by separately evaluating detail losses and additive impairments

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 935-949

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

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contrast masking; contrast sensitivity function; decoupling algorithm; human visual system

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MASKING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY FUNCTION; DECOUPLING ALGORITHMS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE DATABASE; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; LOW QUALITIES; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OVERALL QUALITY; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; QUALITY MEASURES; RESEARCH FIELDS; SUBJECTIVE RATING; TEST IMAGES; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL QUALITIES; VISUAL QUALITY METRICS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; RATING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 80052930732     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2152382     Document Type: Article

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