A Perceptually Relevant No-Reference Blockiness Metric Based on Local Image Characteristics

A novel no-reference blockiness metric that provides a quantitative measure of blocking annoyance in block-based DCT coding is presented. The metric incorporates properties of the human visual system (HVS) to improve its reliability, while the additional cost introduced by the HVS is minimized to en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hantao Liu, Ingrid Heynderickx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/263540