Reduced-reference image quality assessment by structural similarity estimation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Abdul Rehman, Rehman Zhou

Abstract

Reduced-reference image quality assessment (RR-IQA) provides a practical solution for automatic image quality evaluations in various applications where only partial information about the original reference image is accessible. Here we propose an RR-IQA method by estimating the structural similarity (SSIM) index, which is a widely used full-reference (FR) image quality measure shown to be a good indicator of perceptual image quality. Specifically, we extract statistical features from a multi-scale, multi-orientation divisive normalization transform and develop a distortion measure by following the philosophy in the construction of SSIM. We found an interesting linear relationship between the FR SSIM measure and our RR estimate when the image distortion type is fixed. A regression-bydiscretization method is then applied to normalize our measure across image distortion types. We use six publiclyavailable subject-rated databases to test the proposed RR-SSIM method, which shows strong correlations with both SSIM and subjective quality evaluations. Finally, we introduce the novel idea of partially repairing an image using RR features and use deblurring as an example to demonstrate its application.

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Mar 21, 2015·IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society·Yong XuPatrick Le Callet
Jul 18, 2015·IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society·Hojatollah YeganehZhou Wang
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