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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Jeffrey Lubin, So. Orange, NJ (US);
Heidi A Peterson, New York, NY (US);
Clay D Spence, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Aalbert de Vries, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A signal processing apparatus and concomitant method for learning and using fidelity metric as a control mechanism and to process large quantities of fidelity metrics from a visual discrimination measure (VDM) to a manageable subjective image quality ratings. The signal processing apparatus incorporates a VDM and a neural network. The VDM receives input image sequences and generates fidelity metrics, which are received by a neural network. The neural network is trained to learn and use the fidelity metrics as a control mechanism, e.g., to control a video encoder.