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The database and our papers are to be cited in the bibliography as:

H. R. Sheikh, Z. Wang, L. Cormack and A. C. Bovik, "LIVE Image Quality Assessment Database", http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/quality. 

H. R. Sheikh, M.F. Sabir and A.C. Bovik, "A statistical evaluation of recent full reference image quality assessment algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 3440-3451, Nov. 2006.

Z. Wang, A.C. Bovik, H.R. Sheikh and E.P. Simoncelli, "Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , vol.13, no.4, pp. 600- 612, April 2004.

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