Handbook of Image and Video Processing, 2nd Edition

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Perceptual Criteria for Image Quality Evaluation

Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas,     Northwestern University

Robert J. Safranek,     Benevue, Inc.

Junqing Chen,     Unilever Research

1 Introduction

2 Fundamentals of Human Perception and Image Quality

2.1 Psychophysics of Vision

3 Visual Models for Image Quality and Compression

3.1 Basics of Perceptual Image Quality Metrics

3.2 General Models

3.3 Coder-Specific Models

3.4 Suprathreshold Models

3.5 Other Applications

3.6 Video Quality Metrics

4 Conclusions.

References

1 Introduction

Recent advances in digital imaging technology, computational speed, storage capacity, and networking have resulted in the proliferation of digital images, both still and video. As the digital images are ...