期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
卷 21, 期 4, 页码 1488-1499出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2173206
关键词
Cone metrics; normalized metrics; perceptually optimized algorithms and methods; quality metrics and assessment tools; quasi-convexity and convexity; structural similarity (SSIM) index
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Since its introduction in 2004, the structural similarity (SSIM) index has gained widespread popularity as a tool to assess the quality of images and to evaluate the performance of image processing algorithms and systems. There has been also a growing interest of using SSIM as an objective function in optimization problems in a variety of image processing applications. One major issue that could strongly impede the progress of such efforts is the lack of understanding of the mathematical properties of the SSIM measure. For example, some highly desirable properties such as convexity and triangular inequality that are possessed by the mean squared error may not hold. In this paper, we first construct a series of normalized and generalized (vector-valued) metrics based on the important ingredients of SSIM. We then show that such modified measures are valid distance metrics and have many useful properties, among which the most significant ones include quasi-convexity, a region of convexity around the minimizer, and distance preservation under orthogonal or unitary transformations. The groundwork laid here extends the potentials of SSIM in both theoretical development and practical applications. (1)
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