A Haar wavelet-based perceptual similarity index for image quality assessment

R Reisenhofer, S Bosse, G Kutyniok… - Signal Processing: Image …, 2018 - Elsevier
In most practical situations, the compression or transmission of images and videos creates
distortions that will eventually be perceived by a human observer. Vice versa, image and …

Unified no-reference quality assessment of singly and multiply distorted stereoscopic images

Q Jiang, F Shao, W Gao, Z Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenging problem in the no-reference quality assessment of multiply distorted
stereoscopic images (MDSIs) is to simulate the monocular and binocular visual properties …

Local and global feature learning for blind quality evaluation of screen content and natural scene images

W Zhou, L Yu, Y Zhou, W Qiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The blind quality evaluation of screen content images (SCIs) and natural scene images
(NSIs) has become an important, yet very challenging issue. In this paper, we present an …

Logo synthesis and manipulation with clustered generative adversarial networks

A Sage, E Agustsson, R Timofte… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Designing a logo for a new brand is a lengthy and tedious back-and-forth process between
a designer and a client. In this paper we explore to what extent machine learning can solve …

No reference image quality assessment based on multi-expert convolutional neural networks

C Fan, Y Zhang, L Feng, Q Jiang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
No Reference (NR) Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithm is capable of measuring the
quality of distorted images without referencing the original images. This property is of great …

Towards spotting and recognition of handwritten words in Indic scripts

K Dutta, P Krishnan, M Mathew… - 2018 16th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Handwriting recognition (HWR) in Indic scripts is a challenging problem due to the inherent
subtleties in the scripts, cursive nature of the handwriting and similar shape of the …

Semantic-aware blind image quality assessment

E Siahaan, A Hanjalic, JA Redi - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2018 - Elsevier
Many studies have indicated that predicting users' perception of visual quality depends on
various factors other than artifact visibility alone, such as viewing environment, social …

Continuous wavelet transform based no-reference image quality assessment for blur and noise distortions

P Joshi, S Prakash - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a no-reference quality assessment technique to assess the quality of
images that is degraded due to blur and noise. The technique is motivated from the fact that …

Blind image quality assessment of natural scenes based on entropy differences in the DCT domain

X Yang, F Li, W Zhang, L He - Entropy, 2018 - mdpi.com
Blind/no-reference image quality assessment is performed to accurately evaluate the
perceptual quality of a distorted image without prior information from a reference image. In …

Blind image quality assessment based on multiscale salient local binary patterns

PG Freitas, S Alamgeer, WYL Akamine… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Due to the rapid development of multimedia technologies, over the last decades image
quality assessment (IQA) has become an important topic. As a consequence, a great …