Seven challenges in image quality assessment: past, present, and future research

DM Chandler - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

Real-time framework for image dehazing based on linear transmission and constant-time airlight estimation

A Alajarmeh, RA Salam, K Abdulrahim, MF Marhusin… - Information …, 2018 - Elsevier
The haze phenomenon exerts a degrading effect that decreases contrast and causes colour
shifts in outdoor images. The presence of haze in digital images is bothersome, unpleasant …

Image processing device and method for producing in real-time a digital composite image from a sequence of digital images

T Bergen, M Benz, A Ernst, T Wittenberg… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Image processing device for producing in real-time a digital composite image from a
sequence of digital images recorded by a camera device, in particular an endoscopic …

RT-VQM: Real-time video quality assessment for adaptive video streaming using GPUs

M Wichtlhuber, G Wicklein, S Wilk… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Adaptive streaming systems gain rising relevance for streaming services. Therefore, the
same video is offered in multiple quality versions to clients for adaptation during playback …

GPU Acceleration of the Most Apparent Distortion Image Quality Assessment Algorithm

J Holloway, V Kannan, Y Zhang, DM Chandler… - Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The primary function of multimedia systems is to seamlessly transform and display content to
users while maintaining the perception of acceptable quality. For images and videos …

A real-time framework for video Dehazing using bounded transmission and controlled Gaussian filter

A Alajarmeh, AA Zaidan - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
The haze phenomenon exerts a degrading effect that decreases contrast and causes color
shifts in outdoor images and videos. The presence of haze in outdoor images and videos is …

Parameterized splitting of summed volume tables

C Reinbold, R Westermann - Computer Graphics Forum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Summed Volume Tables (SVTs) allow one to compute integrals over the data
values in any cubical area of a three‐dimensional orthogonal grid in constant time, and they …

Microarchitectural analysis of image quality assessment algorithms

TD Phan, SK Shah, DM Chandler… - Journal of Electronic …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Algorithms for image quality assessment (IQA) aim to predict the qualities of images in a
manner that agrees with subjective quality ratings. Over the last several decades, the major …

[PDF][PDF] Selection in a 3D microtomographic image the region with the highest quality

AS Kornilov, IV Safonov, AV Goncharova… - CEUR Workshop …, 2019 - researchgate.net
We present an algorithm for processing of X-ray microtomographic (micro-CT) images that
allows automatic selection of a sub-volume having the best visual quality for further …

GPGPU based implementation of a high performing No Reference (NR)-IQA algorithm, BLIINDS-II

A Yadav, S Sohoni, D Chandler - Electronic Imaging, 2017 - library.imaging.org
A relatively recent thrust in IQA research has focused on estimating the quality of a distorted
image without access to the original (reference) image. Algorithms for this so-called …