Paper Info
Title
Quality Assessment of Stereoscopic 3D Image Compression by Binocular Integration Behaviors
Abstract
The objective approaches of 3D image quality assessment play a key role for the development of compression standards and various 3D multimedia applications. The quality assessment of 3D images faces more new challenges, such as asymmetric stereo compression, depth perception, and virtual view synthesis, than its 2D counterparts. In addition, the widely used 2D image quality metrics (e.g., PSNR and SSIM) cannot be directly applied to deal with these newly introduced challenges. This statement can be verified by the low correlation between the computed objective measures and the subjectively measured mean opinion scores (MOSs), when 3D images are the tested targets. In order to meet these newly introduced challenges, in this paper, besides traditional 2D image metrics, the binocular integration behaviors—the binocular combination and the binocular frequency integration, are utilized as the bases for measuring the quality of stereoscopic 3D images. The effectiveness of the proposed metrics is verified by conducting subjective evaluations on publicly available stereoscopic image databases. Experimental results show that significant consistency could be reached between the measured MOS and the proposed metrics, in which the correlation coefficient between them can go up to 0.88. Furthermore, we found that the proposed metrics can also address the quality assessment of the synthesized color-plus-depth 3D images well. Therefore, it is our belief that the binocular integration behaviors are important factors in the development of objective quality assessment for 3D images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TIP.2014.2302686
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
correlation coefficient,mos,image coding,color plus depth 3d images,quality assessment,stereoscopic 3d image compression,psnr,virtual view synthesis,stereo 3d image,wsnr,visual databases,depth perception,binocular combination,data compression,2d image metrics,hevc,synthesized color-plus-depth 3d images,dorsal stream,objective quality assessment,image databases,ssim,subjective evaluations,ms-ssim,vif,uqi,binocular frequency integration,3d multimedia applications,vsnr,frequency integrated metric (fi-metric),mean opinion scores,ventral stream,binocular vision,human visual system (hvs),stereo image processing,stereopsis,multimedia communication,correlation methods,image colour analysis,measurement,brightness,visualization
Correlation coefficient,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Cyclopean image,Stereoscopy,Image quality,View synthesis,Artificial intelligence,Depth perception,Data compression,Mathematics,Image compression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
4
1941-0042
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
0.91
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Hsun Lin117014.53
Ja-ling Wu21569168.11