No-reference video quality assessment in the compressed domain

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 505-512

  Lin, X ^a   Ma, H ^a   Luo, L ^a   Chen, Y ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; Compressed domain; Human visual system; Motion; No reference video quality assessment; Quantization parameter

Indexed keywords

BIT ALLOCATION; COMPRESSED DOMAIN; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; MOTION; QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS; VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84863675802     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2012.6227454     Document Type: Article

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