Sparse feature fidelity for perceptual image quality assessment

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4007-4018

  Chang, Hua Wen ^a   Yang, Hua ^b,c   Gan, Yong ^a   Wang, Ming Hui ^b  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Full reference; Image quality assessment; Independent component analysis; Sparse coding

Indexed keywords

FULL REFERENCES; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS(ICA); LUMINANCE CORRELATION; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE QUALITY; SPARSE CODING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VISION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84883826931     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2266579     Document Type: Article

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