Quaternion structural similarity: A new quality index for color images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1526-1536

  Kolaman, Amir ^a   Yadid Pecht, Orly ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color image processing; hypercomplex numbers; image quality index; quaternion image processing (QIP)

Indexed keywords

COLOR CROSSTALK; COLOR IMAGES; DESATURATION; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; HYPERCOMPLEX NUMBER; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IMAGE QUALITY INDEX; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUALITY INDICES; QUATERNION IMAGE PROCESSING (QIP); STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; STRUCTURE SIMILARITY; VISUAL QUALITIES; VISUAL QUALITY MATRIXES;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DEGRADATION; IMAGE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84859098339     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2181522     Document Type: Article

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