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A statistical reduced-reference method for color image quality assessment

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Although color is a fundamental feature of human visual perception, it has been largely unexplored in the reduced-reference (RR) image quality assessment (IQA) schemes. In this paper, we propose a natural scene statistic (NSS) method, which efficiently uses this information. It is based on the statistical deviation between the steerable pyramid coefficients of the reference color image and the degraded one. We propose and analyze the multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution (MGGD) to model the underlying statistics. In order to quantify the degradation, we develop and evaluate two measures based respectively on the Geodesic distance between two MGGDs and on the closed-form of the Kullback Leibler divergence. We performed an extensive evaluation of both metrics in various color spaces (RGB, HSV, CIELAB and YCrCb) using the TID 2008 benchmark and the FRTV Phase I validation process. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework to achieve a good consistency with human visual perception. Furthermore, the best configuration is obtained with CIELAB color space associated to KLD deviation measure.

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This work has been supported by the project CNRS-CNRST STIC 02/2014.

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  1. LRIT URAC 29, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

    Mounir Omari & Mohammed El Hassouni

  2. University Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco

    Abdelkaher Ait Abdelouahad

  3. Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image (Le2i) UMR 6306 CNRS, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

    Hocine Cherifi

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Omari, M., Hassouni, M.E., Abdelouahad, A.A. et al. A statistical reduced-reference method for color image quality assessment. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 8685–8701 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2353-z

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