An image enhancement effect objective assessment method based on visual information fidelity

Xiusheng Liu; Hongsheng Yu; Yanqing Dai

doi:10.1117/12.869985

9 November 2010 An image enhancement effect objective assessment method based on visual information fidelity

Xiusheng Liu, Hongsheng Yu, Yanqing Dai

Proceedings Volume 7850, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology; 78501O (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869985
Event: Photonics Asia 2010, 2010, Beijing, China

Abstract

Assessment of image visual quality is of fundamental importance to numerous image and video processing applications. Visual information fidelity is a novel criterion that is based on modeling of natural scene statistics, image distortion and the human visual distortion. Traditionally, image QA algorithms interpret image quality as fidelity or similarity with a "reference" or "perfect" image. We apply the VIF method on image enhancement effect which takes distorted image as "reference" image instead of "perfect" image to assess the quality of enhanced image. It provides clear advantages over the traditional approaches because VIF index is combined with HVS features under certain conditions. In particular, it can be measured only rely on the original image and enhanced image. We validate the performance of our method with an extensive subjective study to show that it outperforms current methods in our testing.

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Xiusheng Liu, Hongsheng Yu, and Yanqing Dai "An image enhancement effect objective assessment method based on visual information fidelity", Proc. SPIE 7850, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology, 78501O (9 November 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869985

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