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5. Quality of Images

Authors : Gianluigi Ciocca, Silvia Corchs, Francesca Gasparini, Carlo Batini, Raimondo Schettini

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Abstract

An image is the result of the optical imaging process which maps physical scene properties onto a two-dimensional luminance distribution; it encodes important and useful information about the geometry of the scene and the properties of the objects located within this scene [339, 611, 687].

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Metadata
Title
Quality of Images
Authors
Gianluigi Ciocca
Silvia Corchs
Francesca Gasparini
Carlo Batini
Raimondo Schettini
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24106-7_5

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