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Image Quality Assessment Using the Joint Spatial/Spatial-Frequency Representation

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing20062006:080537

https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/80537

©  Beghdadi and Iordache 2006

Received: 9 December 2004

Accepted: 9 March 2006

Published: 24 May 2006

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of spatial/spatial-frequency representations in image quality assessment by introducing a new image dissimilarity measure based on 2D Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD). The properties of 2D WVD are shortly reviewed, and the important issue of choosing the analytic image is emphasized. The WVD-based measure is shown to be correlated with subjective human evaluation, which is the premise towards an image quality assessor developed on this principle.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
L2TI-Institute Galilée
(2)
GE Healthcare Technologies

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