A new image quality measure for assessment of histogram equalization-based contrast enhancement techniques

  • Authors:
  • Soong-Der Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Graphics and Multimedia, College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, 43000 Kajang, Selangor D.E., Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Absolute Mean Brightness Error (AMBE) and Entropy are among the two most popular IQMs used to assess Histogram Equalization (HE) based techniques. To the best of author@?s knowledge, there is no evaluation report on how well the two IQMs correlate to human opinion. This paper reviews and discusses the potential flaws in using AMBE and Entropy to assess HE-based techniques. This paper presents results of a subjective quality assessment in which image quality data obtained from 1935 human observer opinion scores were used to evaluate the IQMs. The statistical evaluation results show that the two IQMs have poor correlation with human mean opinion score (MOS); Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC)0.75, Outlier Ratio (OR)20%. A new IQM which takes into account important properties of human visual perception (HVP) is proposed. It is tested and found to have significantly better correlation (PCC0.86, RMSE