Applying image quality in cell phone cameras: lens distortion

Donald Baxter; Sergio R. Goma; Milivoje Aleksic

doi:10.1117/12.805814

19 January 2009 Applying image quality in cell phone cameras: lens distortion

Donald Baxter, Sergio R. Goma, Milivoje Aleksic

Proceedings Volume 7242, Image Quality and System Performance VI; 724213 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805814
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the framework used in one of the pilot studies run under the I3A CPIQ initiative to quantify overall image quality in cell-phone cameras. The framework is based on a multivariate formalism which tries to predict overall image quality from individual image quality attributes and was validated in a CPIQ pilot program. The pilot study focuses on image quality distortions introduced in the optical path of a cell-phone camera, which may or may not be corrected in the image processing path. The assumption is that the captured image used is JPEG compressed and the cellphone camera is set to 'auto' mode. As the used framework requires that the individual attributes to be relatively perceptually orthogonal, in the pilot study, the attributes used are lens geometric distortion (LGD) and lateral chromatic aberrations (LCA). The goal of this paper is to present the framework of this pilot project starting with the definition of the individual attributes, up to their quantification in JNDs of quality, a requirement of the multivariate formalism, therefore both objective and subjective evaluations were used. A major distinction in the objective part from the 'DSC imaging world' is that the LCA/LGD distortions found in cell-phone cameras, rarely exhibit radial behavior, therefore a radial mapping/modeling cannot be used in this case.

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Donald Baxter, Sergio R. Goma, and Milivoje Aleksic "Applying image quality in cell phone cameras: lens distortion", Proc. SPIE 7242, Image Quality and System Performance VI, 724213 (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805814

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