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Although subjective tests are most accurate image/video quality assessment tools, they are extremely time demanding. In the past two decades, a variety of objective tools, such as SSIM, IW-SSIM, SPSIM, FSIM, etc., have been devised, that…
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In this paper we present a modification to the recently proposed transmission F-scan technique, the differential F-scan technique. In differential F-scan technique the programmed focal distance in the electronic-tunable lens oscillates,…
There are a number of ways to test for the absence/presence of a spatial signal in a completely observed fine-resolution image. One of these is a powerful nonparametric procedure called Enhanced False Discovery Rate (EFDR). A drawback of…
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