Sharpness metric for no-reference image visual quality assessment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8295, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ponomarenko, Nikolay N ^a   Lukin, Vladimir V ^a   Eremeev, Oleg I ^a   Egiazarian, Karen O ^b   Astola, Jaakko T ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

blind quality assessment; human vision system; image analysis; no reference metric; visual quality

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; BLIND QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; COLOR COMPONENT; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR SPACE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTOR CONTRIBUTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMAN VISION SYSTEMS; JOINT ANALYSIS; MACROPHOTOGRAPHY; MEAN OPINION SCORES; METRIC CALCULATION; NO REFERENCES; NO-REFERENCE METRICS; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; SPEARMAN RANK; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEST IMAGES; VISUAL QUALITIES; VISUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION; WEIGHTED SUM;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84857538655     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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