Content-based photo quality assessment

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1930-1943

  Tang, Xiaoou ^a,b   Luo, Wei ^a   Wang, Xiaogang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Clarity contrast; Composition geometry; Content based; Dark channel; Hue composition; Photo quality assessment; Scene composition

Indexed keywords

CLARITY CONTRAST; CONTENT-BASED; DARK CHANNEL; PHOTO QUALITY; SCENE COMPOSITION;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84887358078     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2269899     Document Type: Article

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