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An Objective Quality Assessment Based on Gabor Wavelet

Gabor 웨이블릿 기반 객관적 화질 평가

  • Published : 2004.11.01
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new objective quality assessment method considering the human visual perception characteristics. A subjective quality assessment is obtained by the response of the receptive field in the primary visual cortex and a human's eye can't focus on all of the visual range in a moment. Take advantage of two facts above, we apply Gabor wavelet transform which is well fit the receptive field in the cortex, to divided constant sized subblocks. Then a local distortion of the subblocks and a global distortion for the entire image are calculated in order. The proposed method has been evaluated using video test sequences provided by the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). The experimental results show that good correlation with human perception is obtained using the proposed metric, which is what we called GPSNR.

본 논문에서는 인간의 시각 인지 특성을 고려한 새로운 객관적 화질평가 방법을 제안하였다. 인간에 의한 화질 평가는 최종적으로 시각 피질내에 있는 세포의 수용계 반응으로부터 얻어진다는 점과 인간의 시각은 한번에 영상 전체의 왜곡에 대한 반응을 일으킬 수 없음을 고려하여 입력 영상을 부 블록으로 분할하고, 시각 피질 내의 수용계와 가장 잘 부합되는 Gabor 함수를 이용하여 필터 뱅크를 구성하여 부 블록에서 지역적 왜곡 정도를 측정하고, 이를 이용하여 전역적 왜곡 정도가 계산 되어 진다. 제안된 방법은 VQEG에서 제공하는 화질 평가용 영상을 이용하여 평가 되었으며, 주관적 화질 평가와 높은 상관관계를 갖는 객관적 화질 평가 모델임을 실험 결과에서 보여준다.

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