Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information

This paper proposes an image quality evaluation (IQE) metric by considering gradient, visual saliency, and color information. Visual saliency and gradient information are two types of effective features for quality evaluation research. Different regions within an image are not uniformly important fo...

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Main Authors: Hua-Wen Chang, Xiao-Dong Bi, Cheng-Yang Du, Chang-Wei Mao, Ming-Hui Wang
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7540810
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author Hua-Wen Chang
Xiao-Dong Bi
Cheng-Yang Du
Chang-Wei Mao
Ming-Hui Wang
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Xiao-Dong Bi
Cheng-Yang Du
Chang-Wei Mao
Ming-Hui Wang
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description This paper proposes an image quality evaluation (IQE) metric by considering gradient, visual saliency, and color information. Visual saliency and gradient information are two types of effective features for quality evaluation research. Different regions within an image are not uniformly important for IQE. Visual saliency can find the most attractive regions to the human visual system in a given image. These attractive image regions are more strongly correlated with image quality results. In addition, the degradation of gradient information is related to the structure distortion which is a very important factor for image quality. However, the two types of features cannot accurately evaluate the color distortion of images. In order to evaluate chromatic distortion, this paper proposes the color similarity which is measured in the YIQ color space. The computation of the proposed method begins with the similarity calculation of local gradient information, visual saliency, and color information. Then, the final quality score is obtained by the standard deviation on each similarity component. The experimental results on five benchmark databases (i.e., CSIQ, IVC, LIVE, TID2013, and TID2008) show that the proposed IQE method performs better than other methods in the correlation with subjective quality judgment.
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spelling doaj-art-9f512ad4d2c544fe8df41aebeece3e772025-02-03T06:10:55ZengWileyInternational Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting1687-75862022-01-01202210.1155/2022/7540810Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color InformationHua-Wen Chang0Xiao-Dong Bi1Cheng-Yang Du2Chang-Wei Mao3Ming-Hui Wang4College of Computer and Communication EngineeringCollege of Computer and Communication EngineeringCollege of Computer and Communication EngineeringCollege of Computer and Communication EngineeringCollege of Computer ScienceThis paper proposes an image quality evaluation (IQE) metric by considering gradient, visual saliency, and color information. Visual saliency and gradient information are two types of effective features for quality evaluation research. Different regions within an image are not uniformly important for IQE. Visual saliency can find the most attractive regions to the human visual system in a given image. These attractive image regions are more strongly correlated with image quality results. In addition, the degradation of gradient information is related to the structure distortion which is a very important factor for image quality. However, the two types of features cannot accurately evaluate the color distortion of images. In order to evaluate chromatic distortion, this paper proposes the color similarity which is measured in the YIQ color space. The computation of the proposed method begins with the similarity calculation of local gradient information, visual saliency, and color information. Then, the final quality score is obtained by the standard deviation on each similarity component. The experimental results on five benchmark databases (i.e., CSIQ, IVC, LIVE, TID2013, and TID2008) show that the proposed IQE method performs better than other methods in the correlation with subjective quality judgment.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7540810
spellingShingle Hua-Wen Chang
Xiao-Dong Bi
Cheng-Yang Du
Chang-Wei Mao
Ming-Hui Wang
Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
title Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
title_full Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
title_fullStr Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
title_full_unstemmed Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
title_short Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information
title_sort image quality evaluation based on gradient visual saliency and color information
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7540810
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