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Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Joint Statistics of Gradient Magnitude and Laplacian Features
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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of a distorted image without information regarding its reference image. Existing BIQA models usually predict the image quality by analyzing the image statistics in some transformed domain, e.g., in the discrete cosine transform domain or wavelet domain. Though great progress has been made in recent years, BIQA is still a very challenging task due to the lack of a reference image. Considering that image local contrast features convey important structural information that is closely related to image perceptual quality, we propose a novel BIQA model that utilizes the joint statistics of two types of commonly used local contrast features: 1) the gradient magnitude (GM) map and 2) the Laplacian of Gaussian (LOG) response. We employ an adaptive procedure to jointly normalize the GM and LOG features, and show that the joint statistics of normalized GM and LOG features have desirable properties for the BIQA task. The proposed model is extensively evaluated on three large-scale benchmark databases, and shown to deliver highly competitive performance with state-of-the-art BIQA models, as well as with some well-known full reference image quality assessment models.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Xue, W., Mou, X., Zhang, L., Bovik, A. C., & Feng, X.
- Affiliations
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Xidian University (CN)
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Published
- 2014-11
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 4850-4862
- ISSN
- 1057-7149 (ISSN-L)
- 1941-0042
- OpenAlex
- W1977246677
- Cited by
- 641
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 32.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61172163, 90920003, 61271294)
- Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (PolyU-5315/12E)
- National Science Foundation (IIS-0917175, IIS-1116656)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
- Keywords
- no-reference image quality assessment, gradient magnitude, Laplacian of Gaussian, feature normalization, perceptual image quality, image distortion
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