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In this paper, we propose a novel image quality assessment (IQA) based on an Improved Structural SIMilarity (ISSIM) which considers the spatial distributions of image structures. The existing structural similarity (SSIM) metric, which measures structure loss based on statistical moments, i.e., the mean and variance, represents mainly the luminance change of pixels rather than describing the spatial distribution. However, the human visual system (HVS) is highly adapted to extract structures with regular spatial distributions. In this paper, we employ a self-similarity based procedure to describe the spatial distribution of image structures. Then, combining with the statistical characters, we improve the structural similarity based quality metric. Furthermore, considering the viewing condition, we extend the ISSIM metric to the multi-scale space. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed IQA metric is more consistent with the human perception than the SSIM metric.
This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant NO. 60805012, 61033004, 61070138, 61227004, and 61003148.
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Wu, J., Qi, F., Shi, G. (2012). Image Quality Assessment Based on Improved Structural SIMilarity. In: Lin, W., et al. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2012. PCM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34778-8_14
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