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No-Reference Quality Assessment of Camera-Captured Distortion Images

Authors : Lijuan Tang, Leida Li, Ke Gu, Jiansheng Qian, Jianying Zhang

Published in: Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2016

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of quality assessment of camera images using three types of features. The first type of features measures the naturalness of an image, inspired by a recent finding that there exists high correlation between structural degradation and free energy entropy on natural scene images and this regulation will be gradually devastated as more distortions are introduced. The second type of features comes from an observation that a broad spectrum of statistics of distorted images can be caught by the generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD) according to natural scene statistics (NSS). These two groups of features are both based on NSS regulations, but they come from the considerations of local auto-regression and global histogram, respectively. The third type of features estimates the local sharpness by computing log-energies in the discrete wavelet transform domain. Finally our quality metric is achieved via an SVR-based machine learning tool and its performance is proved to be statistically better than state-of-the-art competitors on the CID2013 database, which is dedicated to the quality assessment of camera-captured images.

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Metadata
Title
No-Reference Quality Assessment of Camera-Captured Distortion Images
Authors
Lijuan Tang
Leida Li
Ke Gu
Jiansheng Qian
Jianying Zhang
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48896-7_58