Image compression is an essential technique for efficient transmission and storage of images. The demands for transmission and storage of multimedia data are increasing exponentially. A gray scale ...

Beauty, the expression goes, is in the eye of the beholder. Perception of quality is relative. Consumers have a set of references about quality. They are forgiving of poor image quality, ...

Discrete cosine transform (DCT) based digital video coding standards such as MPEG and H.26x are becoming more widely adopted for multimedia applications. Since the standards differ in their format and ...

In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-user of many computing systems are … human. And, as humans, we are far from perfect – not just in our ...