Image quality assessment based on gradient similarity

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1500-1512

  Liu, Anmin ^a   Lin, Weisi ^a   Narwaria, Manish ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Contrast masking; gradient similarity; human visual system (HVS); image quality assessment (IQA); structural similarity (SSIM)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MASKING; GRADIENT SIMILARITY; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84859035240     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2175935     Document Type: Article

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