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Volume 2 | Issue 2 | Year 2011 | Article Id. IJCTT-V2I2P108 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V2I2P108

Image Quality Analysis of Deblocked Images

Ch.Manasa,K.Ashok babu

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Ch.Manasa,K.Ashok babu, "Image Quality Analysis of Deblocked Images," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 518-523, 2011. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V2I2P108

Abstract

JPEG compression is the most prevalent technique or method for image codecs.But it suffers from blocking artifacts.In this paper a comparison of the perceptual quality of deblocked images based on various quality assessment metric is done. A proposed PSNR including blocking effect factor was used instead of PSNR. Another quality assessment metric SSIM was used which produces results largely in accordance with PSNR –B. We show the simulation results, which prove PSNR-B produces objective judgments .The efficiency of deblocking algorithms were studied.

Keywords

Deblocked images, blocking artifacts, quality assessment, quality metric.

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