Title
A Perceptually Relevant MSE-Based Image Quality Metric.
Abstract
Image quality metrics (IQMs), such as the mean squared error (MSE) and the structural similarity index (SSIM), are quantitative measures to approximate perceived visual quality. In this paper, through analyzing the relationship between the MSE and the SSIM under an additive noise distortion model, we propose a perceptually relevant MSE-based IQM, MSE-SSIM, which is expressed in terms of the variance of the source image and the MSE between the source and distorted images. Evaluations on three publicly available databases (LIVE, CSIQ, and TID2008) show that the proposed metric, despite requiring less computation, compares favourably in performance to several existing IQMs. In addition, due to its simplicity, MSE-SSIM is amenable for the use in a wide range of image and video tasks that involve solving an optimization problem. As an example, MSE-SSIM is used as the objective function in designing a Wiener filter that aims at optimizing the perceptual visual quality of the output. Experimental results show that the images filtered with a MSE-SSIM-optimal Wiener filter have better visual quality than those filtered with a MSE-optimal Wiener filter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIP.2013.2273671
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
image processing
Wiener filter,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Image processing,Image quality,Mean squared error,Artificial intelligence,Distortion,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
11
1057-7149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.51
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Li Tan1767.42
Z. Li21578164.19
Yih Han Tan314013.87
Susanto Rahardja4652102.05
Chuohao Yeo569242.48