Using full-reference image quality metrics for automatic image sharpening

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9138, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Krasula, Lukáš ^a,b   Fliegel, Karel ^a   Le Callet, Patrick ^b   Klíma, Miloš ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Full Reference Metrics; Image Enhancement; Image Post Processing; Image Sharpening; Objective Quality Metrics; Subjective Quality Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

FULL REFERENCES; IMAGE SHARPENING; OBJECTIVE QUALITIES; POST PROCESSING; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84902310901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2052275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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