No-reference image quality assessment in curvelet domain

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 494-505

  Liu, Lixiong ^a   Dong, Hongping ^a   Huang, Hua ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Curvelet; Image quality assessment (IQA); Natural scene statistics (NSS); No reference (NR); Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CURVELET COEFFICIENTS; CURVELETS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT (IQA); NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; NO REFERENCES; NO-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84897981080     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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