Image quality assessment based on perceptual structural similarity

  • Authors:
  • D. Venkata Rao;L. Pratap Reddy

  • Affiliations:
  • Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla, India;JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • PReMI'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Pattern recognition and machine intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a full reference objective image quality assessment technique which is based on the properties of the human visual system (HVS). It consists of two major components: 1) structural similarity measurement (SSIM) between the reference and distorted images, mimicking the overall functionality of HVS in a top down frame work. 2) A visual attention model which indicates perceptually important regions in the reference image based on the characteristics of intermediate and higher visual processes through the use of Importance Maps. Structural similarity in a region is weighted, depending on the perceptual importance of the region to arrive at Perceptual Structural Similarity Metric (PSSIM) indicative of the image quality.