Blind Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Window Method and HSV Color Space

Abstract

To improve the evaluation accuracy of the distorted images with various distortion types, an effective blind image quality assessment (BIQA) algorithm based on the multi-window method and the HSV color space is proposed in this paper. We generate multiple normalized feature maps (NFMs) by using the multi-window method to better characterize image degradation from the receptive fields of different sizes. Specifically, the distribution statistics are first extracted from the multiple NFMs. Then, Pearson linear correlation coefficients between spatially adjacent pixels in the NFMs are utilized to quantify the structural changes of the distorted images. Weibull model is utilized to capture distribution statistics of the differential feature maps between the NFMs to more precisely describe the presence of the distortions. Moreover, the entropy and gradient statistics extracted from the HSV color space are employed as a complement to the gray-scale features. Finally, a support vector regressor is adopted to map the perceptual feature vector to image quality score. Experimental results on five benchmark databases demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves higher prediction accuracy and robustness against diverse synthetically and authentically distorted images than the state-of-the-art algorithms while maintaining low computational cost.

An Efficient Method for No-Reference Video Quality Assessment

“…For both reasons, we propose a sampling algorithm able to maintain video frames that present variations in content and especially in terms of imaging conditions. The HSV color space, which contains the three components hue, saturation, and value, provides an intuitive color representation and is more suitable than the RGB color space to capture features correlated well with human perception [ 29 ]. It was also seen that the value component is strongly affected by blur, while the other components remained approximately unchanged.…”