No-reference pixel video quality monitoring of channel-induced distortion

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 605-618

  Valenzise, Giuseppe ^a   Magni, Stefano ^b   Tagliasacchi, Marco ^c   Tubaro, Stefano ^c  

^a TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^b Reply   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel errors; no reference; quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIT STREAM; CHANNEL ERROR; ERROR-PRONE NETWORK; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MACRO BLOCK; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; NO REFERENCES; PIXEL VALUES; QUALITY MONITORING; QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM; VIDEO QUALITY;

ERRORS; IMAGE QUALITY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

PIXELS;

EID: 84859727492     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2171211     Document Type: Article

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