scholarly journals A No Reference Image Quality Assessment Metric Based on Visual Perception

Algorithms ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Fu ◽  
Shengchun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Reference Image

scholarly journals Quality Assessment on Authentically Distorted Images by Expanding Proxy Labels

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodi Guan ◽  
Fan Li ◽  
Lijun He
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Quality Score ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Human Visual Perception ◽  
In The Wild

In this paper, we propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) approach towards authentically distorted images, based on expanding proxy labels. In order to distinguish from the human labels, we define the quality score, which is generated by using a traditional NR-IQA algorithm, as “proxy labels”. “Proxy” means that the objective results are obtained by computer after the extraction and assessment of the image features, instead of human judging. To solve the problem of limited image quality assessment (IQA) dataset size, we adopt a cascading transfer-learning method. First, we obtain large numbers of proxy labels which denote the quality score of authentically distorted images by using a traditional no-reference IQA method. Then the deep network is trained by the proxy labels, in order to learn IQA-related knowledge from the amounts of images with their scores. Ultimately, we use fine-tuning to inherit knowledge represented in the trained network. During the procedure, the mapping relationship fits in with human visual perception closer. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm shows an outstanding performance as compared with the existing algorithms. On the LIVE In the Wild Image Quality Challenge database and KonIQ-10k database (two standard databases for authentically distorted image quality assessment), the algorithm realized good consistency between human visual perception and the predicted quality score of authentically distorted images.

scholarly journals A Regression-Based Family of Measures for Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Oszust
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Human Visual Perception ◽  
Full Reference ◽  
Highly Correlated

Abstract The advances in the development of imaging devices resulted in the need of an automatic quality evaluation of displayed visual content in a way that is consistent with human visual perception. In this paper, an approach to full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) is proposed, in which several IQA measures, representing different approaches to modelling human visual perception, are efficiently combined in order to produce objective quality evaluation of examined images, which is highly correlated with evaluation provided by human subjects. In the paper, an optimisation problem of selection of several IQA measures for creating a regression-based IQA hybrid measure, or a multimeasure, is defined and solved using a genetic algorithm. Experimental evaluation on four largest IQA benchmarks reveals that the multimeasures obtained using the proposed approach outperform state-of-the-art full-reference IQA techniques, including other recently developed fusion approaches.

scholarly journals No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Visual Perception

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Jun Ni ◽  
Zi Yin Li ◽  
Hua Cai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Video Compression ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Probability Summation ◽  
Different Content

No-reference image quality assessment is an important issue for video compression and communication. This work presents a no-reference objective image/video sharpness method based on visual perception metric (VPM). The algorithm gets image typical edge and edge width firstly, and then gets gray contrast of typical edge region, finally utilizes these factors to integrate a probability summation assessment model. The proposed metric is able to predict the amount of sharpness in image with different content. Experimental results show that this method is consistent with subjective assessment of human being and can be use to describe the visual perception of image effectively.

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.

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