Title
Statistical evaluation of image quality measures
Abstract
In this work we comprehensively categorize image quality measures, extend measures defined for gray scale images to their multispectral case, and propose novel image quality measures. They are categorized into pixel difference-based, correlation-based, edge-based, spectral-based, context-based and human visual system (HVS)-based measures. Furthermore we compare these measures statistically for still image compression applications. The statistical behavior of the measures and their sensitivity to coding artifacts are investigated via analysis of variance techniques. Their similarities or differences are illustrated by plotting their Kohonen maps. Measures that give consistent scores across an image class and that are sensitive to coding artifacts are pointed out. It was found that measures based on the phase spectrum, the multiresolution distance or the HVS filtered mean square error are computationally simple and are more responsive to coding artifacts. We also demonstrate the utility of combining selected quality metrics in building a steganalysis tool. (C) 2002 SPIE and IST.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1117/1.1455011
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
image quality,image compression,mean square error,kohonen map,spectrum,distortion,human visual system,analysis of variance
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Multispectral image,Mean squared error,Image quality,Self-organizing map,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Steganalysis,Grayscale,Image compression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
2
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
195
22.93
26
Authors
3
Search Limit
100195
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ismail Avcibas154053.81
Bülent Sankur2133681.43
Khalid Sayood386888.12