医学图像质量评价中的梯度加权SSIM

Zhou Wang等人提出了著名的图像客观质量评价方法：结构相似度（SSIM）,其理论基础是人眼视觉系统能高度自适应地提取场景中的结构信息,大量实验证明SSIM的评价性能多优于PSNR（或MSE）。然而,由于视觉掩盖效应的影响,且SSIM规避了HVS底层视觉特性,直接导致SSIM的评价常与主观评价不符。在深入研究SSIM算法的基础上,根据人眼视觉的掩盖效应之特性,提出图像中不同区域的失真程度引导的权值设计方案：基于梯度加权的SSIM图像质量评价方法（GWSSIM）。实验结果表明,GWSSIM的图像质量评价准确性高于PSNR和SSIM,尤其适用于医学图像。     

改进的结构相似医学图像质量评价方法

医学图像质量评价从基本方法上和普通图像评价是相同的。基于人眼视觉系统的图像质量客观评价一直是图像处理领域的研究热点。Zhou Wang等人提出了著名的客观质量评价方法：结构相似度（SSIM）,它的理论基础是人眼视觉系统能高度自适应地提取场景中的结构信息。其评价性能优于PSNR（或MSE）。但是SSIM评价模糊失真类的图像准确性较低。在深入研究SSIM算法的基础上,提出一种改进SSIM算法：基于梯度方向信息的图像质量评价方法（GDSSIM）。实验结果表明,GDSSIM评价高斯模糊（GBlur）图像库时准确性明显高于PSNR和SSIM,评价Fast Fading图像库时准确性也有明显优势。最后,初步探讨了以上图像质量评价算法在医学图像上的应用。     

No-reference image quality assessment based on localized discrete cosine transform for JPEG compressed images

In this paper, we propose a new no-reference image quality assessment for JPEG compressed images. In contrast to the most existing approaches, the proposed method considers the compression processes for assessing the blocking effects in the JPEG compressed images. These images have blocking artifacts in high compression ratio. The quantization of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients is the main issue in JPEG algorithm to trade-off between image quality and compression ratio. When the compression ratio increases, DCT coefficients will be further decreased via quantization. The coarse quantization causes blocking effect in the compressed image. We propose to use the DCT coefficient values to score image quality in terms of blocking artifacts. An image may have uniform and non-uniform blocks, which are respectively associated with the low and high frequency information. Once an image is compressed using JPEG, inherent non-uniform blocks may become uniform due to quantization, whilst inherent uniform blocks stay uniform. In the proposed method for assessing the quality of an image, firstly, inherent non-uniform blocks are distinguished from inherent uniform blocks by using the sharpness map. If the DCT coefficients of the inherent non-uniform blocks are not significant, it indicates that the original block was quantized. Hence, the DCT coefficients of the inherent non-uniform blocks are used to assess the image quality. Experimental results on various image databases represent that the proposed blockiness metric is well correlated with the subjective metric and outperforms the existing metrics.

     

Retinal image quality assessment using generic image quality indicators

A retinal image gradability assessment algorithm based on the fusion of generic image quality indicators is introduced. Four features quantifying image colour, focus, contrast and illumination are computed using novel image processing techniques. These quality indicators are also combined and classified to evaluate the image suitability for diagnostic purposes. The algorithm performance is thoroughly appraised through comparison of the automatic classification results of 2032 retinal images from proprietary, DRIVE, Messidor, ROC and STARE datasets with human made classification, revealing a sensitivity of 99.76% and a specificity of 99.49%. The algorithm computational complexity and sensitivity to image noise and resolution were also experimentally quantified demonstrating very good performance and confirming the usability of the solution in an ambulatory application environment.     

Spoofing detection on hand images using quality assessment

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Recent research on biometrics focuses on achieving a high success rate of authentication and addressing the concern of various spoofing attacks. Although hand...     

基于对偶树复小波变换的模糊图像质量评价

小波域和结构相似度SSIM的质量评价方法已经成为图像处理领域的研究热点,然而都存在一定的缺陷:传统的离散小波变换缺乏平移不变性,其方向选择性也十分有限;对于严重模糊的图像,SSIM评价结果并不十分准确。基于此,提出了一种适应于模糊图像质量评价的新算法。该算法用对偶树复小波变换DTCWT将图像进行分解来获取复小波系数,然后对所得到的六个方向的高频子带系数分别进行平均梯度幅度值的结构相似度MGSIM测量,最后将所得到的全部MGSIM的均值作为最终的原始模糊图像的模糊值。仿真实验验证了本方法比结构相似度更吻合人眼的视觉效果,与主观评价方法具有很好的一致性,并且在各方面的性能都优于目前有关文献的方法。     

结合NSS和小波变换的无参考图像质量评价

为了度量不同失真类型的图像质量,提出一种基于小波多尺度变换的无参考质量评价方法。该方法根据自然场景统计(NSS)模型中小波多尺度变换子带能量在对数域的线性分布规律,利用失真条件下变化缓慢的高尺度子带能量预测理想图像的低尺度子带能量,同时对一些不适合失真类型进行能量补偿,最后通过量化失真图像的预测值和实际值之间的能量差异来度量图像质量。实验结果表明,该方法与主观评价方法有较好的一致性,且在总体性能上优于当前相关文献的方法。     

一种针对高斯模糊图像的无参质量评价方法

针对模糊图像高频分量的特性,提出了一种针对高斯模糊图像的无参质量评价方法。该方法利用小波变换对模糊图像提取高频分量,在高频分量功率谱上构造评价指标。实验结果表明提出的评价指标优于PSNR和SSIM,其客观评价分数与主观评价分数具有更好的一致性。     

视觉关注度的立体图像质量评价

立体图像质量评价对立体视频技术的发展起着非常重要的作用。常用的PSNR(峰值信噪比)方法不能反映人类视觉感知特性,也不能直接应用到立体图像质量评价中。针对人类视觉对立体图像深度感知和重点关注感兴趣区的特点,提出基于纹理图和深度图感兴趣区的质量评价方法。首先对纹理图和对应的深度图利用视觉关注度提取工具提取感兴趣区,然后在评价的过程中对各感兴趣区根据感兴趣程度分配基于像素的权重系数,最后将权重系数应用在立体图像的各个区域中进行评价。实验结果表明该方法得到的立体图像质量客观评价结果与主观评价结果之间具有更好的一致性,符合人眼视觉系统感知特性。     

基于机器学习的无参考图像质量评价综述

无参考图像质量评价（NRIQA）因其广泛的应用需求一直以来都是计算机视觉及其交叉领域的研究热点。回顾近十几年来基于机器学习的典型NRIQA模型,介绍图像质量评价的常用数据库、算法性能指标、NRIQA主要难点和现有的解决方法;分析了不同模型的思想、实现、特点;最后统计对比多个数据库上的测试结果。总结研究现状、分析发展趋势,为这一领域的研究者提供文献参考。     

基于尺度不变性的无参考图像质量评价

现有的通用型无参考图像质量评价方法大多是利用失真图像及其主观值来训练回归模型预测图像质量指标,然而这种方法需要消耗大量的时间进行训练,并且评价效果依赖于训练图像库中的失真类型,通用性较差,很难应用到实际场合中。为了解决数据库依赖问题,提出一种归一化的基于图像尺度不变性的无参考图像质量评价方法。该方法不依赖外部数据,将图像的统计特性及边缘结构特性作为图像质量评价的有效特征,利用图像多尺度不变性计算多尺度间的整体特征差异,从而预测图像质量。实验结果表明,所提方法对混合失真图像质量评价效果好,运行效率高,与目前现有的无参考图像质量评估方法相比具有较好的综合性能,具有较好的应用价值。     

No-reference image quality assessment using fusion metric

This paper presents a fusion featured metric for no-reference image quality assessment of natural images. Natural images exhibit strong statistical properties across the visual contents such as leading edge, high dimensional singularity, scale invariance, etc. The leading edge represents the strong presence of continuous points, whereas high singularity conveys about non-continuous points along the curves. Both edges and curves are equally important in perceiving the natural images. Distortions to the image affect the intensities of these points. The change in the intensities of these key points can be measured using SIFT. However, SIFT tends to ignore certain points such as the points in the low contrast region which can be identified by curvelet transform. Therefore, we propose a fusion of SIFT key points and the points identified by curvelet transform to model these changes. The proposed fused feature metric is computationally efficient and light on resources. The neruofuzzy classifier is employed to evaluate the proposed feature metric. Experimental results show a good correlation between subjective and objective scores for public datasets LIVE, TID2008, and TID2013.

     

基于梯度及HVS特性的离焦模糊图像质量评价*

在当前人眼视觉系统（HVS）特性研究的基础上提出基于梯度及HVS特性的离焦模糊图像质量评价模型（GVSSIM）。该模型利用Sobel边缘梯度算子提取图像的梯度信息,并根据人眼视觉特性进行视觉加权,得到新的结构相似性评价指标,进而获得图像质量评价指标。该方法与SSIM(图像结构相似度)评价模型相比,具有计算简单的特点,对离焦模糊图像的评价结果能更好地反映人眼视觉感受。     

Multimedia image quality assessment based on deep feature extraction

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Measurement of visual quality is of significant importance to many image processing tasks. The target of image quality assessment (IQA) is to design effective...     

基于视觉相似性的去色图像质量评估

针对基于结构相似性的去色图像质量评估算法没有充分利用图像的梯度特征且采用的对比度相似度特征会忽略图像连续颜色块的一致性导致算法与人类视觉主观判定有较大出入的问题,提出一种基于图像视觉相似性的去色图像质量评估算法--C2G-VSIM。该算法以彩色图像为参考图像,由不同去色算法产生的与之相关的去色灰度图像作为测试图像,对参考图像以及测试图像进行颜色空间转换,并且进行高斯滤波,充分考虑了图像亮度相似度和结构相似度特征,并在此基础上首先引入一种新的颜色一致性对比特征以促使C2G-VSIM对全局颜色对比度特征进行捕捉,其次引入梯度幅值特征至C2G-VSIM中以提高算法对图像梯度特征的敏感度,最后联合得到图像质量评估因子C2G-VSIM。在Cadík的数据集上的实验结果表明,C2G-VSIM与人类视觉主观评定的等级相关性在准确度和主观评判喜爱度上分别达到了0.8155和0.7634,相对于基于彩色图和灰度图的结构相似性（C2G-SSIM）评估算法在未增加较大耗时的情况下,准确度有明显提高。所提算法与人类视觉主观判定具有较高的一致性,且计算简单,在实际工程中能大规模且有效地对去色图像进行自动化评分。     

A real-time near infrared image acquisition system based on image quality assessment

This paper presents a real-time image acquisition system with an improved image quality assessment module to acquire high-quality near infrared (NIR) images. Thermal imaging plays a vital role in a wide range of medical and military applications. The demand for high-throughput image acquisition and image processing has continuously increased especially for critical medical and military purposes where executions under real-time constraints are required. This work implements an NIR image quality assessment module, which utilizes improved two-dimensional entropy and mask-based edge detection algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed image quality assessment algorithms is demonstrated through the implementation of a complete finger-vein biometric system. The proposed model is implemented as an embedded system on a field programmable gate array prototyping platform. By including the image quality assessment module, the proposed system is able to achieve a recognition accuracy of 0.87 % equal error rate, and can handle real-time processing at 15 frames/s (live video rate). This is achieved through hardware acceleration of the proposed image quality assessment algorithms via a novel streaming architecture.     

Robust HDR image quality assessment using combination of quality metrics

Multimedia Tools and Applications - We propose a framework to combine various quality metrics using a full reference approach for High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image quality assessment (IQA). We combine...     

Blind noisy image quality assessment using block homogeneity

Blind noisy image quality assessment aims to evaluate the quality of the degraded noisy image without the need for the ground truth image. To tackle this challenge, this paper proposes an image quality assessment approach using block homogeneity. First, motivated by the local smoothness characteristic of the image, a block-based homogeneity measure is proposed to estimate the statistics (e.g., variance) of the noise incurred in the image, based on adaptively selected homogeneous image regions. Second, an image quality assessment approach is proposed by exploitie above-mentioned estimated noise variance, along with the visual masking effect of the human visual system. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate that the proposed image noise estimation approach yields superior accuracy and stability performance to that of conventional approaches, and the proposed image quality assessment approach achieves consistent performance to that of human subjective evaluation.     

基于感兴趣区域的图像质量评价方法

将图像质量的评价划分为感兴趣区域与非感兴趣区域的加权组合评价,在感兴趣区域内使用梯度算子改进结构相似评价方法,非感兴趣区域沿用经典的结构相似评价。实验结果表明,该方法能较好地考虑感兴趣区域的重要性,更符合人的主观视觉质量。