Various distortions will be introduced to images during different image processing procedures
and the assessment of image quality has become a hot topic. According to the fact that the traditional pixel-difference statistics-based PSNR method and structural similarity method cannot correlate well with human subjective evaluation
a novel image quality assessment method via Riesz-Transform based structural similarity is proposed. The method firstly applies 1st-order Riesz-Transform and 2nd-order Riesz Transform to the reference image and distorted image
and 5 groups of corresponding features maps are obtained to produce 5 similarity maps and 5 weighting maps. Then the average-method fusion is performed to get the final similarity map and weighting map. Lastly
the luminance comparison of the original reference image and distorted image is considered to get the final image quality index. The experiments on the LIVE database indicate that the proposed method has high prediction accuracy and consistency on all 5 distortion types. It also outperforms the SSIM method under cross-distortion conditions and the PLCC value and SROCC value reach 0.9482 and 0.9532 respectively. Compared with other state-of-the-art methods
the proposed method owns good predictive performance
which indicates better consistency with human subjective perception.
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