Objective quality assessment of tone-mapped images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 657-667

  Yeganeh, Hojatollah ^a   Wang, Zhou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

High dynamic range image; image fusion; image quality assessment; naturalness; perceptual image processing; structural similarity; tone mapping operator

Indexed keywords

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; NATURALNESS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TONE MAPPING OPERATORS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE FUSION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84872229455     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2221725     Document Type: Article

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