Blind Image Quality Assessment With Joint Entropy Degradation

Abstract

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate the quality of an image without pristine image objectively, which is highly desired in many perception-oriented image processing systems. Distortions degrade the visual contents and cause image quality degradation. Moreover, the visual contents of an image suffer from individual degradations by different types and different levels of distortions, which makes us difficult to analyze the quality degradation. From the perspective of information theory, there is a decrease in the amount of the visual contents when images are distorted. Therefore, in this paper, the image quality is assessed through its visual entropy degradation. Researches on the neuroscience indicate that the simple cells in the local receptive field can be characterized as being spatially localized and oriented, then the local intensity, gradient, and orientation features are extracted to represent the visual contents of an image. By deducing the joint entropy equation, the joint entropy is related to the statistical distributions. Next, in order to measure the visual entropy, the joint statistical distributions of those features are calculated. Finally, by measuring the degradations on these distributions of distorted images, a novel BIQA method is proposed. The experimental results on the databases of LIVE, CSIQ, and TID2013 show that the proposed method has superior performance than other state-of-the-art BIQA methods. INDEX TERMS Blind image quality assessment (BIQA), local receptive field, joint visual entropy, joint probability distribution.

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