An image quality index based on mutual information and neural networks

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1983-1993

  Deriche, Mohamed ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Image quality assessment; MLP; Mutual information; Neural networks; PSNR; Weighted SNR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936951012     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0727-6     Document Type: Article

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