Exploring Visual and Automatic Measures of Perceptual Fidelity in Real and Simulated Imagery

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-238

  Mc Namara, Ann ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; image quality; Measurement; Psychophysics; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977837247     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1166087.1166092     Document Type: Article

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