Human observer confidence in image quality assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 935-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Engelke ◽  
Anthony Maeder ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Zepernick
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Human Observer

PENILAIAN KUALITI IMEJ DIGITAL BERDASARKAN KAEDAH CIRI-CIRI SISTEM PENGLIHATAN MANUSIA DAN PRINSIP STRUKTUR IMEJ

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (5-10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahbibi Rahmatullah ◽  
Siti Tasnim Mahamud
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Full Reference

Tremendous advances of information technology provide a large role for digital images for delivering information quickly and accurately. However, digital images are exposed to distortions and imperfect quality during acquisition, compression, transmission, processing and reproduction. Therefore, the development of effectively image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in order to identify and measure the distortion in image quality. Perception by human observers (manually) as the ultimate receiver of the visual information contained in an image and most reliable to assess the quality of image. However, manual subjective assessment method is considered costly and time consuming. This lead to the development of proposed automatic method to measure image quality as accurately as the manual method. The goal of objective image quality assessment is to develop a computational model that can accurately and automatically predict the perceptual image quality. An ideal objective IQA method should be able to imitate the quality predictions of an average human observer. Full-reference image quality assessment is a method where image with perfect quality provided as a reference image for guiding the IQA system. This paper presents the study and comparison between two full-reference method that frequently used in IQA system that is method based on the properties of human visual system (HVS) and method based on principle of image structure. Both of this method is proven can be used to measure digital images quality accurately and depends on distortion types that occurred on measured images.

scholarly journals RAVA: Region-Based Average Video Quality Assessment

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5489
Author(s):  
Xuanyi Wu ◽  
Irene Cheng ◽  
Zhenkun Zhou ◽  
Anup Basu
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Video Quality ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Perceptual Quality ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Video Quality Assessment ◽  
Compressed Video

Video has become the most popular medium of communication over the past decade, with nearly 90 percent of the bandwidth on the Internet being used for video transmission. Thus, evaluating the quality of an acquired or compressed video has become increasingly important. The goal of video quality assessment (VQA) is to measure the quality of a video clip as perceived by a human observer. Since manually rating every video clip to evaluate quality is infeasible, researchers have attempted to develop various quantitative metrics that estimate the perceptual quality of video. In this paper, we propose a new region-based average video quality assessment (RAVA) technique extending image quality assessment (IQA) metrics. In our experiments, we extend two full-reference (FR) image quality metrics to measure the feasibility of the proposed RAVA technique. Results on three different datasets show that our RAVA method is practical in predicting objective video scores.

scholarly journals No-Reference Image Quality Assessment with Local Gradient Orientations

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Oszust
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Local Gradient

Image processing methods often introduce distortions, which affect the way an image is subjectively perceived by a human observer. To avoid inconvenient subjective tests in cases in which reference images are not available, it is desirable to develop an automatic no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) technique. In this paper, a novel NR-IQA technique is proposed in which the distributions of local gradient orientations in image regions of different sizes are used to characterize an image. To evaluate the objective quality of an image, its luminance and chrominance channels are processed, as well as their high-order derivatives. Finally, statistics of used perceptual features are mapped to subjective scores by the support vector regression (SVR) technique. The extensive experimental evaluation on six popular IQA benchmark datasets reveals that the proposed technique is highly correlated with subjective scores and outperforms related state-of-the-art hand-crafted and deep learning approaches.

A Novel Hybrid Image Quality Assessment Algorithm

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-108
Author(s):  
Deepa Maria Thomas ◽  
◽  
S. John Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment

Document Image Quality Assessment with Relaying Reference to Determine Minimum Readable Resolution for Compression

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
pp. 323-1-323-8
Author(s):  
Litao Hu ◽  
Zhenhua Hu ◽  
Peter Bauer ◽  
Todd J. Harris ◽  
Jan P. Allebach
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Quality Score ◽  
Document Image ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Image quality assessment has been a very active research area in the field of image processing, and there have been numerous methods proposed. However, most of the existing methods focus on digital images that only or mainly contain pictures or photos taken by digital cameras. Traditional approaches evaluate an input image as a whole and try to estimate a quality score for the image, in order to give viewers an idea of how “good” the image looks. In this paper, we mainly focus on the quality evaluation of contents of symbols like texts, bar-codes, QR-codes, lines, and hand-writings in target images. Estimating a quality score for this kind of information can be based on whether or not it is readable by a human, or recognizable by a decoder. Moreover, we mainly study the viewing quality of the scanned document of a printed image. For this purpose, we propose a novel image quality assessment algorithm that is able to determine the readability of a scanned document or regions in a scanned document. Experimental results on some testing images demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Order Gradients Statistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 10505-1-10505-16
Author(s):  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Xuehan Bai ◽  
Junhua Yan ◽  
Yongqi Xiao ◽  
C. R. Chatwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Image Distortion ◽  
Image Feature ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Gradient Magnitude ◽  
Distortion Type

Abstract A new blind image quality assessment method called No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Order Gradients Statistics is proposed, which is aimed at solving the problem that the existing no-reference image quality assessment methods cannot determine the type of image distortion and that the quality evaluation has poor robustness for different types of distortion. In this article, an 18-dimensional image feature vector is constructed from gradient magnitude features, relative gradient orientation features, and relative gradient magnitude features over two scales and three orders on the basis of the relationship between multi-order gradient statistics and the type and degree of image distortion. The feature matrix and distortion types of known distorted images are used to train an AdaBoost_BP neural network to determine the image distortion type; the feature matrix and subjective scores of known distorted images are used to train an AdaBoost_BP neural network to determine the image distortion degree. A series of comparative experiments were carried out using Laboratory of Image and Video Engineering (LIVE), LIVE Multiply Distorted Image Quality, Tampere Image, and Optics Remote Sensing Image databases. Experimental results show that the proposed method has high distortion type judgment accuracy and that the quality score shows good subjective consistency and robustness for all types of distortion. The performance of the proposed method is not constricted to a particular database, and the proposed method has high operational efficiency.

Image quality assessment based on local invariant features

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 3369-3372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-zhou YANG ◽  
Xiao-qing YING ◽  
Guang-quan CHENG ◽  
Dan TU
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Local Invariant ◽  
Invariant Features ◽  
Local Invariant Features
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