Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model

Zhou Wang D.V.M.; Eero P. Simoncelli

doi:10.1117/12.597306

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18 March 2005 Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model

Zhou Wang D.V.M.; Eero P. Simoncelli

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Proceedings Volume 5666, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597306
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

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Reduced-reference (RR) image quality measures aim to predict the visual quality of distorted images with only partial information about the reference images. In this paper, we propose an RR quality assessment method based on a natural image statistic model in the wavelet transform domain. In particular, we observe that the marginal distribution of wavelet coefficients changes in different ways for different types of image distortions. To quantify such changes, we estimate the Kullback-Leibler distance between the marginal distributions of wavelet coefficients of the reference and distorted images. A generalized Gaussian model is employed to summarize the marginal distribution of wavelet coefficients of the reference image, so that only a relatively small number of RR features are needed for the evaluation of image quality. The proposed method is easy to implement and computationally efficient. In addition, we find that many well-known types of image distortion lead to significant changes in wavelet coefficient histograms, and thus are readily detectable by our measure. The algorithm is tested with subjective ratings of a large image database that contains images corrupted with a wide variety of distortion types.

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Zhou Wang D.V.M. and Eero P. Simoncelli "Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model", Proc. SPIE 5666, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, (18 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597306

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