Quantifying image quality in graphics: Perspective on subjective and objective metrics and their performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8651, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mantiuk, Rafal K ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; OBJECTIVE METRICS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; USER STUDY;

ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84878708426     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2008369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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