Image sharpness assessment based on local phase coherence

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2798-2810

  Hassen, Rania ^a   Wang, Zhou ^a   Salama, Magdy M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex wavelet transform; image blur; image quality assessment (IQA); image sharpness; local phase coherence (LPC); phase congruency

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE BLUR; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); IMAGE SHARPNESS; LOCAL PHASE-COHERENCE; PHASE CONGRUENCY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84878285652     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2251643     Document Type: Article

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