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

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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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  1. L2TI-Institute Galilée, Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse, 93430, France

    Azeddine Beghdadi

  2. GE Healthcare Technologies, Buc, 78530, France

    Răzvan Iordache

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Beghdadi, A., Iordache, R. Image Quality Assessment Using the Joint Spatial/Spatial-Frequency Representation. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2006, 080537 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/80537

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