Digital Video Quality: Vision Models and Metrics

About the Author. Acknowledgements. Acronyms. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Motivation. 1.2 Outline. 2 Vision. 2.1 Eye. 2.2 Retina. 2.3 Visual Pathways. 2.4 Sensitivity to Light. 2.5 Color Perception. 2.6 Masking and Adaptation. 2.7 Multi-channel Organization. 2.8 Summary. 3 Video Quality. 3.1 Video Coding and Compression. 3.2 Artifacts. 3.3 Visual Quality. 3.4 Quality Metrics. 3.5 Metric Evaluation. 3.6 Summary. 4 Models and Metrics. 4.1 Isotropic Contrast. 4.2 Perceptual Distortion Metric. 4.3 Summary. 5 Metric Evaluation. 5.1 Still Images. 5.2 Video. 5.3 Component Analysis. 5.4 Summary. 6 Metric Extensions. 6.1 Blocking Artifacts. 6.2 Object Segmentation. 6.3 Image Appeal. 6.4 Summary. 7 Closing Remarks. 7.1 Summary. 7.2 Perspectives. Appendix: Color Space Conversions. References. Index.

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