Full-reference quality estimation for images with different spatial resolutions

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2069-2080

  Demirtas, Ali Murat ^a   Reibman, Amy R ^b   Jafarkhani, Hamid ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

human visual system; Image quality estimation; paired comparison; spatial resolution; subjective tests

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE QUALITY ESTIMATION; MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; PAIRED COMPARISON; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84898040846     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2014.2310991     Document Type: Article

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