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This paper presents a new objective metric for assessing the visual difference between a reference or ‘perfect’ mesh and its distorted version. The proposed metric is based on the measurement of a distance between curvature tensors of the two triangle meshes under comparison. Unlike existing methods, our algorithm uses not only eigenvalues but also eigenvectors of the curvature tensor to derive a perceptually-oriented distance. Our metric also accounts for some important properties of the human visual system. Experimental results show good coherence between the proposed objective metric and subjective assessments.
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Torkhani, F., Wang, K., Chassery, JM. (2012). A Curvature Tensor Distance for Mesh Visual Quality Assessment. In: Bolc, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Chmielewski, L.J., Wojciechowski, K. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33564-8_31
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