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Image Quality Assessment
With the rapid growth in Internet technologies and the enormous use of
multimedia content for different applications, from education to entertain-
ment, paramount importance is given to the use of images and videos. In
order to save space and transfer in less time, these images and videos are
compressed. Due to compression, artifacts are generated, which degrades
the quality of the images. Research is still going on to increase the compres-
sion ratio by degrading quality to a small extent. The extent to which quality
is degraded should be analyzed for further performance improvement of
the compression algorithm. T ...