Norm: No-reference image quality metric for realistic image synthesis

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 545-554

  Herzog, Robert ^a   Čadík, Martin ^a   Aydın, Tunç O ^a,b   Kim, Kwang In ^a   Myszkowski, Karol ^a   Seidel, Hans P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; MAPS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AUTOMATIC CORRECTIONS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; NO-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; OBJECTIVE QUALITIES; OBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING; REALISTIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS; VIRTUAL POINT LIGHT SOURCES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84870976728     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03055.x     Document Type: Article

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