End-to-end optimization of nonlinear transform codes for perceptual quality

2016 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Ballé, Johannes ^a   Laparra, Valero ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRIC DISTORTION; IMAGE CODING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; NONLINEAR TRANSFORMS; PERCEPTUAL METRICS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; RATE DISTORTION PERFORMANCE; SCALAR QUANTIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 85019408669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCS.2016.7906310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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