Blind image quality assessment without human training using latent quality factors

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 75-78

  Mittal, Anish ^a   Muralidhar, Gautam S ^a   Ghosh, Joydeep ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortions; image quality; local artifact; pLSA; topic model

Indexed keywords

DISTORTED IMAGES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LOCAL ARTIFACT; MEAN OPINION SCORES; NATURAL IMAGES; NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NO-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; PLSA; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; QUALITY FACTORS; QUALITY MEASURES; TOPIC MODEL; VISUAL WORD;

DISTORTION (WAVES); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84855673971     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2179293     Document Type: Article

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