IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY SALIENCY MAPS

Edoardo Ardizzone, Alessandro Bruno

2012

Abstract

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is an interesting challenge for image processing applications. The goal of IQA is to replace human judgement of perceived image quality with a machine evaluation. A large number of methods have been proposed to evaluate the quality of an image which may be corrupted by noise, distorted during acquisition, transmission, compression, etc. Many methods, in some cases, do not agree with human judgment because they are not correlated with human visual perception. In the last years the most modern IQA models and metrics considered visual saliency as a fundamental issue. The aim of visual saliency is to produce a saliency map that replicates the human visual system (HVS) behaviour in visual attention process. In this paper we show the relationship between different kind of visual saliency maps and IQA measures. We particularly perform a lot of comparisons between Saliency-Based IQA Measures and traditional Objective IQA Measure. In Saliency scientific literature there are many different approaches for saliency maps, we want to investigate which is best one for IQA metrics.

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Ardizzone E. and Bruno A. (2012). IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY SALIENCY MAPS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 479-483. DOI: 10.5220/0003867704790483


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@conference{visapp12,
author={Edoardo Ardizzone and Alessandro Bruno},
title={IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY SALIENCY MAPS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={479-483},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003867704790483},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY SALIENCY MAPS
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Ardizzone E.
AU - Bruno A.
PY - 2012
SP - 479
EP - 483
DO - 10.5220/0003867704790483