The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D (대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D)

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Objective Image Quality Metric for Block-Based DCT Image Coder Using Structural Distortion Measurement

구조적 왜곡특성 측정을 이용한 블록기반 DCT 영상 부호화기의 객관적 화질평가

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new quantitative and objective image quality metric which is essential to verify the performance of block-based DCT image coding. The proposed metric considers not only global distortion of coded image such as spatial frequency sensitivity and channel masking using HVS based multi-channel model, but also structural distortions caused block-based coding. The experimental results show a strong correlation between proposed metric and subjective metric.

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