1 January 2010 Framework for optimal region of interest-based quality assessment in wireless imaging
Ulrich Engelke, Hans-Jürgen Zepernick
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Abstract
Images usually exhibit regions that particularly attract the viewer's attention. These regions are typically referred to as regions of interest (ROI), and the underlying phenomenon in the human visual system is known as visual attention (VA). In the context of image quality, one can expect that distortions occurring in the ROI are perceived as being more annoying compared to distortions in the background. However, VA is seldom taken into account in existing image quality metrics. In this work, we provide a VA framework to extend existing image quality metrics with a simple VA model. The performance of the framework is evaluated on three contemporary image quality metrics. We further consider the context of wireless imaging where a broad range of artifacts can be observed. To facilitate the VA-based metric design, we conduct subjective experiments to both obtain a ground truth for the subjective quality of a set of test images and to identify ROI in the corresponding reference images. A methodology is further discussed to optimize the VA metrics with respect to quality prediction accuracy and generalization ability. It is shown that the quality prediction performance of the three considered metrics can be significantly improved by deploying the proposed framework.
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Ulrich Engelke and Hans-Jürgen Zepernick "Framework for optimal region of interest-based quality assessment in wireless imaging," Journal of Electronic Imaging 19(1), 011005 (1 January 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3267097
Published: 1 January 2010
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KEYWORDS
Image quality

Visualization

Molybdenum

Image segmentation

Eye

Image processing

Information visualization

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