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Advances in Perceptual Image Quality Metrics
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Advances in Perceptual Image Quality Metrics

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 7073

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Prof. Dr. Marius Pedersen

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: creating perceptual image quality metrics; model the human visual system
Prof. Dr. Aladine Chetouani

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Laboratory PRISME, University of Orleans, Château de la Source, 45100 Orléans, France
Interests: pattern recognition; image quality assessment; video analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Advances are rapidly taking place in the imaging industry, with new products introduced to the market. To evaluate and benchmark image quality, objective omage quality metrics have become very popular. This Special Issue aims to present new research on perceptual image quality metrics including but not limited to full-reference metrics, no-reference metrics, reduced-reference metrics, new databases for the evaluation of image quality metrics, pooling techniques, and perceptual models for use in image quality metrics.

Prof. Dr. Marius Pedersen
Prof. Dr. Aladine Chetouani
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Keywords

  • image quality metrics
  • perception
  • quality assessment
  • quality databases

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Quality Assessment of 2.5D Prints Using 2D Image Quality Metrics
by Altynay Kadyrova, Vlado Kitanovski and Marius Pedersen
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(16), 7470; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11167470 - 14 Aug 2021
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Quality assessment is an important aspect in a variety of application areas. In this work, the objective quality assessment of 2.5D prints was performed. The work is done on camera captures under both diffuse (single-shot) and directional (multiple-shot) illumination. Current state-of-the-art 2D full-reference [...] Read more.
Quality assessment is an important aspect in a variety of application areas. In this work, the objective quality assessment of 2.5D prints was performed. The work is done on camera captures under both diffuse (single-shot) and directional (multiple-shot) illumination. Current state-of-the-art 2D full-reference image quality metrics were used to predict the quality of 2.5D prints. The results showed that the selected metrics can detect differences between the prints as well as between a print and its 2D reference image. Moreover, the metrics better detected differences in the multiple-shot set-up captures than in the single-shot set-up ones. Although the results are based on a limited number of images, they show existing metrics’ ability to work with 2.5D prints under limited conditions. Full article
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Image Quality Assessment without Reference by Combining Deep Learning-Based Features and Viewing Distance
by Aladine Chetouani and Marius Pedersen
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(10), 4661; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11104661 - 19 May 2021
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An abundance of objective image quality metrics have been introduced in the literature. One important essential aspect that perceived image quality is dependent on is the viewing distance from the observer to the image. We introduce in this study a novel image quality [...] Read more.
An abundance of objective image quality metrics have been introduced in the literature. One important essential aspect that perceived image quality is dependent on is the viewing distance from the observer to the image. We introduce in this study a novel image quality metric able to estimate the quality of a given image without reference for different viewing distances between the image and the observer. We first select relevant patches from the image using saliency information. For each patch, a feature vector is extracted from a convolutional neural network model and concatenated at the viewing distance, for which the quality is predicted. The resulting vector is fed to fully connected layers to predict subjective scores for the considered viewing distance. The proposed method was evaluated using the Colourlab Image Database: Image Quality and Viewing Distance-changed Image Database. Both databases provide subjective scores at two different viewing distances. In the Colourlab Image Database: Image Quality we obtain a Pearson correlation of 0.87 at both 50 cm and 100 cm viewing distances, while in the Viewing Distance-changed Image Database we obtained a Pearson correlation of 0.93 and 0.94 at viewing distance of four and six times the image height. The results show the efficiency of our method and its generalization ability. Full article
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Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Images Based on Textural and Structural Distortion Estimation
by Hafiz Muhammad Usama Hassan Alvi, Muhammad Shahid Farid, Muhammad Hassan Khan and Marcin Grzegorzek
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(6), 2666; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11062666 - 17 Mar 2021
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Emerging 3D-related technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and stereoscopy have gained remarkable growth due to their numerous applications in the entertainment, gaming, and electromedical industries. In particular, the 3D television (3DTV) and free-viewpoint television (FTV) enhance viewers’ television experience [...] Read more.
Emerging 3D-related technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and stereoscopy have gained remarkable growth due to their numerous applications in the entertainment, gaming, and electromedical industries. In particular, the 3D television (3DTV) and free-viewpoint television (FTV) enhance viewers’ television experience by providing immersion. They need an infinite number of views to provide a full parallax to the viewer, which is not practical due to various financial and technological constraints. Therefore, novel 3D views are generated from a set of available views and their depth maps using depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) techniques. The quality of a DIBR-synthesized image may be compromised for several reasons, e.g., inaccurate depth estimation. Since depth is important in this application, inaccuracies in depth maps lead to different textural and structural distortions that degrade the quality of the generated image and result in a poor quality of experience (QoE). Therefore, quality assessment DIBR-generated images are essential to guarantee an appreciative QoE. This paper aims at estimating the quality of DIBR-synthesized images and proposes a novel 3D objective image quality metric. The proposed algorithm aims to measure both textural and structural distortions in the DIBR image by exploiting the contrast sensitivity and the Hausdorff distance, respectively. The two measures are combined to estimate an overall quality score. The experimental evaluations performed on the benchmark MCL-3D dataset show that the proposed metric is reliable and accurate, and performs better than existing 2D and 3D quality assessment metrics. Full article
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