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% M. Rakhshanfar and M. A. Amer, "No-Reference Image Quality Assessment 
% Based on Sparsity and Orientation Dominancy," IEEE 
% Transactions on Image Processing, first submission Aug, 2015.
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%  The for running the code on GPU you need OpenCL libraries 
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