Title
Statistics of natural image sequences: temporal motion smoothness by local phase correlations
Abstract
Statistical modeling of natural image sequences is of fundamental importance to both the understanding of biological visual systems and the development of Bayesian approaches for solving a wide variety of machine vision and image processing problems. Previous methods are based on measuring spatiotemporal power spectra and by optimizing the best linear filters to achieve independent or sparse representations of the time-varying image signals. Here we propose a dierent approach, in which we investigate the temporal variations of local phase structures in the complex wavelet transform domain. We observe that natural image sequences exhibit strong prior of temporal motion smoothness, by which local phases of wavelet coecients can be well predicted from their temporal neighbors. We study how such a statistical regularity is interfered with "unnatural" image distortions and demonstrate the potentials of using temporal motion smoothness measures for reduced-reference video quality assessment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1117/12.810176
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
temporal motion smoothness,local phase correlation,image sequence statistics,reduced-reference video quality assessment,image quality assessment,natural image statistics,complex wavelet transform,wavelet transforms,bayesian approach,visual system,machine vision,phase correlation,statistical model,statistical modeling,image processing,linear filtering,sparse representation,wavelets,video,wavelet transform
Pattern recognition,Statistical regularity,Sparse approximation,Strong prior,Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Statistical model,Complex wavelet transform,Mathematics,Wavelet,Wavelet transform
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.69
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Z Wang113331630.91
Qiang Li28419.63