대한전자공학회논문지SP (Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP)

대한전자공학회 (The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers)
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에지 투영의 유사도를 이용한 압축된 영상에 대한 Reduced-Reference 화질 평가

Reduced-Reference Quality Assessment for Compressed Videos Based on the Similarity Measure of Edge Projections

  • Kim, Dong-O (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Park, Rae-Hong (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Sim, Dong-Gyu (Department of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
  • 발행 : 2008.05.25
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화질 평가는 원영상과 열화된 영상 간의 차이를 측정함으로써, 열화된 영상의 화질이 좋고 나쁨을 판단하는 것을 목표로 한다. 본 논문에서는 열화된 영상의 화질 평가를 위해, 원영상과 열화된 영상 전체를 비교하는 것 대신, 원영상과 열화된 영상, 각각의 특징으로 에지 투영을 이용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 여기서 에지 투영은 에지 맵에서 수직, 수평 방향으로 투영시킴으로써 얻을 수 있다. 에지 투영 시 수직, 수평 방향에 대한 그래디언트 크기를 고려함으로써, 보다 나은 화질 평가 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법의 탁월함을 기존의 화질 평가 방법인 structural similarity(SSIM), edge peak signal-to-noise ratio(EPSNR), 그리고 edge histogram descriptor(EHD) 방법과 비교 실험을 통해 보였다.

Quality assessment ai s to evaluate if a distorted image or video has a good quality by measuring the difference between the original and distorted images or videos. In this paper, to assess the visual qualify of a distorted image or video, visual features of the distorted image are compared with those of the original image instead of the direct comparison of the distorted image with the original image. We use edge projections from two images as features, where the edge projection can be easily obtained by projecting edge pixels in an edge map along vertical/horizontal direction. In this paper, edge projections are obtained by using vertical/horizontal directions of gradients as well as the magnitude of each gradient. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed quality assessment through the comparison with conventional quality assessment algorithms such as structural similarity(SSIM), edge peak signal-to-noise ratio(EPSNR), and edge histogram descriptor(EHD) methods.

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