摘要
目的现有的全参考图像质量评价方法使用"完美"的源信号作为参考,但是增强图像的参考图像通常不是"完美"的。因此,现有的全参考质量评价方法不能用于增强图像的评价,提出了一种新的面向彩色增强图像的质量评价算法。方法利用图像的梯度、颜色和亮度特征,提出了增强图像的梯度增强图、颜色增强图和亮度增强因子的计算方法,计算增强图像相对于参考图像在梯度、颜色和亮度方面的增强程度;并建立了亮度增强因子和梯度增强图、颜色增强图之间的关系模型;另外,原图像的梯度和颜色特征也被提取用于增强图像的质量评价。结果使用公开数据库进行的实验结果表明,该算法和现有最优算法相比,皮尔逊线性相关系数(PLCC)和斯皮尔曼相关系数(SROCC)分别提高了2.9%和2.5%,而均方根误差(RMSE)则降低了12.3%,获得了比现有算法更优越的性能。结论本文算法解决了目前已有的评价算法需要参考图像为"完美"图像,而且增强图像质量无法采用相似性程度进行计算的问题,适用于为了获得更好视觉质量的不含噪增强图像的质量评价。
Objective Image enhancement is very important in various visual signal processing applications. In many appli- cations, such as photo retouching, visual inspection, and machine analysis, image enhancement methods are proposed to obtain images with better visual quality. In these cases, original images are usually not ＂perfect. ＂ However, existing full- reference image quality assessment methods use ＂perfect＂ original images as reference signals to assess image quality. Therefore, existing full-reference image quality assessment methods cannot be used to evaluate the visual quality of en- hanced images. In this paper, a novel visual quality assessment metric based on features of gradient, colorfulness, and lu- minance is proposed for enhanced chromatic images. Method The human visual system （HVS） is highly sensitive to gradi- ent information, which can effectively capture both contrast and structural/texture information. Thus, in the proposed met- ric, a gradient enhancement map is calculated by estimating the enhancement degree of the enhanced image compared with its reference image. In addition, colorfulness is the attribute of the perceived color in certain regions appearing to be more or less chromatic. In the proposed metric, the colorfulness of an enhanced image is estimated by two factors, namely, one is the average distance from different colors to the center gray and the distance between individual colors in the image. Con- scquently, a colorfulness enhancement map is computed by calculating the enhancement extent of color saturation and its standard deviation. Meanwhile, luminance enhancement factor is integrated together based on the analysis that the luminance change would influence the appearance of gradient and colorfulness information. Moreover, the gradient and colorful- ness features of the reference images are extracted to build the objective quality assessment metric for enhanced images. Fi- nally, the model of the relationship between the luminance enhancement factor and the gradien
出处
《中国图象图形学报》
CSCD
北大核心
2015年第5期643-651,共9页
Journal of Image and Graphics
基金
国家自然科学基金项目(61007012)
国家科技支撑计划项目(2012BAF07B05-3)
浙江省自然科学基金项目(LY12F05007)
关键词
图像质量评价
增强图像
梯度增强图
颜色增强图
亮度增强因子
image quality assessment
enhanced image
gradient enhancement map
colorfulness enhancement map
luminance enhancement factor
