4802-8-1 Image Fidelity and Compression

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Summary

This lecture focused on the topic of finding image fidelity in a way related to the human visual system. This is useful for finding the optimal level of lossy compression that can be used on an image without losing quality.

Image Fidelity and Compression

Various types of image compression yield resulting images

http://www.msoe.edu/~taylor/papers/thesis.htm provides a thesis concerning the assessment of image fidelity using the human visual model - written by a certain MSOE professor. [5]

http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Research/Papers/FidelityQuality/FidelityQuality.html discusses the relationship between image fidelity and image quality. [4]

http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/scielab/compare/compare.html discusses finding the fidelity of color images using image distortion maps. [5]

http://www.cs.tcd.ie/people/Ann.McNamara/Publications/COURSE_SIGGRAPH2000.pdf - a pdf file containing an entire course concerning image metrics. Contains information regarding image fidelity and the human visual system. [5]

http://www.mitre.org/technology/imagery_systems/imagelab/awic.html discusses background on the Adaptive Wavelet Image Compression algorithm. Gives example images of AWIC encoding versus JPEG. Provides links to a techincal paper concerning AWIC and source code for compressing individual images and as well as video. [4]

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