IQM2: New image quality measure based on steerable pyramid wavelet transform and structural similarity index

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1159-1168

  Dumic, E ^a   Grgic, S ^a   Grgic, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Image databases; Image decomposition; Image quality; IQM2 measure; SPWT transform; SSIM index

Indexed keywords

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE DATABASE; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; IMAGE QUALITY MEASURE; IQM2 MEASURE; OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; SSIM INDICES; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY INDICES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84906322273     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-014-0654-3     Document Type: Article

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