Automatic parameter prediction for image denoising algorithms using perceptual quality features

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8291, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mittal, Anish ^a   Moorthy, Anush K ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND DENOISING; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DE-NOISING; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGE DENOISING ALGORITHM; NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NOISE VARIANCE; PARAMETER PREDICTION; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; VISUAL QUALITIES;

ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84859457992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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