Title
Single Image Super-Resolution Quality Assessment: A Real-World Dataset, Subjective Studies, and an Objective Metric
Abstract
Numerous single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms have been proposed during the past years to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) image from its low-resolution (LR) observation. However, how to fairly compare the performance of different SISR algorithms/results remains a challenging problem. So far, the lack of comprehensive human subjective study on large-scale real-world SISR datasets and accurate objective SISR quality assessment metrics makes it unreliable to truly understand the performance of different SISR algorithms. We in this paper make efforts to tackle these two issues. Firstly, we construct a real-world SISR quality dataset (i.e., RealSRQ) and conduct human subjective studies to compare the performance of the representative SISR algorithms. Secondly, we propose a new objective metric, i.e., KLTSRQA, based on the Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) to evaluate the quality of SISR images in a no-reference (NR) manner. Experiments on our constructed RealSRQ and the latest synthetic SISR quality dataset (i.e., QADS) have demonstrated the superiority of our proposed KLTSRQA metric, achieving higher consistency with human subjective scores than relevant existing NR image quality assessment (NR-IQA) metrics. The dataset and the code will be made available at https://github.com/Zhentao-Liu/RealSRQ-KLTSRQA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TIP.2022.3154588
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Measurement, Degradation, Cameras, Superresolution, Quality assessment, Image segmentation, Computer science, Single image super-resolution, real-world, image quality assessment, no-reference metric, Karhunen-Loeve transform
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
44
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Zhou119328.72
Zhentao Liu200.68
Ke Gu3132177.21
Feng Shao460372.75
Zhang X525034.16
Hantao Liu632827.86
Weisi Lin75366280.14