Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 3019-3032Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2018.2829607
Keywords
Quality evaluation; multiply distorted images; spatial contrast; spatial distribution; biorder structures; nonlocal statistics
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61771473, 61379143]
- Six Talent Peaks High-level Talents in Jiangsu Province [XYDXX-063]
- Qing Lan Project
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In the past decade, extensive image quality metrics have been proposed. The majority of them are tailored for the images that contain a specific type of distortion. However, in practice, the images are usually degraded by different types of distortions simultaneously. This poses great challenges to the existing quality metrics. Motivated by this, this paper proposes a no-reference quality index for the multiply distorted images using the biorder structure degradation and the nonlocal statistics. The design philosophy is inspired by the fact that the human visual system (HVS) is highly sensitive to the degradations of both the spatial contrast and the spatial distribution, which are prone to be changed by the joint effects of the multiple distortions. Specifically, the multiresolution representation of the image is first built by downsampling to simulate the hierarchical property of the HVS. Then, the structure degradation is calculated to measure the spatial contrast. Considering the fact that the human visual cortex has the separate mechanisms to perceive the first- and second-order structures, dubbed biorder structures, the degradations of biorder structures are calculated to account for the spatial contrast, producing the first group of the quality-aware features. Furthermore, the nonlocal self-similarity statistics is calculated to measure the spatial distribution, producing the second group of features. Finally, all the features are fed into the random forest regression model to learn the quality model for the multiply distorted images. Extensive experimental results conducted on the three public databases demonstrate the superiority of the proposed metric to the state-of-the-art metrics. Moreover, the proposed metric is also advantageous over the existing metrics in terms of the generalization ability.
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