Using mean-squared error to assess visual image quality

Charles C. Beckner Jr.; Charles L. Matson

doi:10.1117/12.682154

25 August 2006 Using mean-squared error to assess visual image quality

Charles C. Beckner Jr., Charles L. Matson

Proceedings Volume 6313, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVI; 63130E (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682154
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Conclusions about the usefulness of mean-squared error for predicting visual image quality are presented in this paper. A standard imaging model was employed that consisted of: an object, point spread function, and noise. Deconvolved reconstructions were recovered from blurred and noisy measurements formed using this model. Additionally, image reconstructions were regularized by classical Fourier-domain filters. These post-processing steps generated the basic components of mean-squared error: bias and pixel-by-pixel noise variances. Several Fourier domain regularization filters were employed so that a broad range of bias/variance tradeoffs could be analyzed. Results given in this paper show that mean-squared error is a reliable indicator of visual image quality only when the images being compared have approximately equal bias/variance ratios.

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Charles C. Beckner Jr. and Charles L. Matson "Using mean-squared error to assess visual image quality", Proc. SPIE 6313, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVI, 63130E (25 August 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682154

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