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CoDIQE3D: A completely blind, no-reference stereoscopic image quality estimator using joint color and depth statistics

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In this paper, we present an unsupervised, completely blind, no-reference (NR) stereoscopic (S3D) image quality prediction model to assess the perceptual quality of natural S3D images. We study the joint dependencies between color and depth features of S3D images and empirically model these dependencies by using a bivariate generalized Gaussian distribution (BGGD). We compute the parameters of BGGD, and we also obtain the determinant and the coherence values from the covariance matrix of the proposed BGGD model. We extract the features of BGGD model and covariance matrix from the reference S3D image, followed by multivariate Gaussian (MVG) distribution modeling on the predicted features of the reference. We estimate the joint color and depth quality of the S3D images by computing the likelihood of the image features with respect to the reference MVG model. We apply the popular 2D unsupervised NIQE model on individual stereo views to estimate the overall spatial quality of the S3D images. Finally, we pool the likelihood scores and the spatial NIQE scores to achieve the estimation for the overall perceived quality of the S3D images. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated on the MICT, LIVE Phase I and II S3D image datasets. The results indicate consistent and robust performance for all datasets. Our proposed estimator is completely blind, as it requires neither training on subjective scores nor reference S3D images.

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The research reported in this paper was supported in part by the Department of Science and Technology - Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India under Grant SRG/2020/000336. The work was also supported by project no. BME-NVA-02, implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021 funding scheme.

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    Ajay Kumar Reddy Poreddy

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    Peter A. Kara

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India

    Roopak R. Tamboli

  4. Sigma Technology, Budapest, Hungary

    Aniko Simon

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Balasubramanyam Appina

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Poreddy, A.K.R., Kara, P.A., Tamboli, R.R. et al. CoDIQE3D: A completely blind, no-reference stereoscopic image quality estimator using joint color and depth statistics. Vis Comput 39, 6743–6753 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-022-02760-3

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