Making a 'completely blind' image quality analyzer

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 209-212

  Mittal, Anish ^a   Soundararajan, Rajiv ^b,c   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Qualcomm Research India   (India)

Author keywords

Completely blind; distortion free; image quality assessment; no reference

Indexed keywords

COMPLETELY BLIND; DISTORTED IMAGES; GENERAL PURPOSE; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LARGE DATABASE; NATURAL IMAGES; NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NEW INDICES; NO REFERENCES; PERCEPTUAL MODEL; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPACE DOMAIN; STATISTICAL FEATURES; STATISTICAL REGULARITY; TRAINING EXAMPLE; UNDISTORTED IMAGES;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84873400956     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2012.2227726     Document Type: Article

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