No-reference quality assessment of natural stereopairs

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3379-3391

  Chen, Ming Jun ^a   Cormack, Lawrence K ^b   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

3D image quality; Binocular rivalry; no reference QA; stereoscopic quality assessment

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR RIVALRY; FULL REFERENCES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; NO REFERENCES; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; BINOCULAR VISION; IMAGE QUALITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84880568161     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2267393     Document Type: Article

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