In this paper, a collection of performance measures and IQMs designed specifically for image compression is presented. Beginning with the customary performance measures of MSE and space-time bandwidth product, we progress to spatial measures such as cutoff frequency, effect of greyscale quantization on variance, measures of texture preservation, and statistics of the modulation transfer function (MTF). Texture is estimated by an area-based variance descriptor derived from the Lorentz-ian distribution, which has been successfully employed in ATR practice.
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