Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2011, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 473-482.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2011.05.006

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Spatial Pooling Strategies for Image Quality Assessment Based on Local Structural Information

WANG Bao-yun, ZHANG Rong, YIN Dong   

  1. Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China,
    Hefei 230027, China
  • Received:2010-12-29 Revised:2011-04-14 Online:2011-09-28 Published:2011-09-30

Abstract:

A spatial pooling strategies (SPS) for image quality assessment (IQA) is proposed, which obtain a weight map from local structural information (LSI) of the reference image. The reference image is first smoothed with a Gaussian kernel, and the LSI is extracted from the smoothed image. A weight map is derived from the LSI using a non-zero procedure. PSNR and SSIM obtained in the experiments show effectiveness of the proposed method for a wide range of image distortion types.

Key words:  image quality assessment, structural information, visual significance, spatial pooling strategy, human vision system(HVS)

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