정보과학회 논문지 (Journal of KIISE)

  • 제44권9호
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  • Pages.992-1004
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  • 2017
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  • 2383-630X(pISSN)
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  • 2383-6296(eISSN)
한국정보과학회 (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers)
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계산 속도와 왜곡 강인성을 동시 고려한 이미지 품질 평가

Image Quality Assessment Considering both Computing Speed and Robustness to Distortions

  • 투고 : 2017.05.25
  • 심사 : 2017.07.09
  • 발행 : 2017.09.15
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초록

이미지 품질을 정확히 평가하기 위해 이미지 평가 도구는 인간 시각 시스템을 반영해야 한다. 즉, 이미지의 구조, 색, 명암 비 등 여러 가지 요소들을 고려하여 평가해야 한다. 또한 스마트 폰과 같은 모바일 임베디드 기기의 폭넓은 사용에 따라 빠른 수행 속도를 갖는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 인간 시각 만족과 빠른 계산속도 달성을 동시에 얻기 위하여 색 유사도, 변화율 유사도, 위상 유사도를 상승적으로 결합하였고 최적화된 이미지 풀링 및 양자화 기반으로 설계하였다. 제안하는 기법은 기존에 존재하는 13개의 기법과 비교하였고 네 가지 검증 도구를 사용하여 성능을 검증하였다. 실험 결과 세 검증 도구에서 가장 우수한 성능을 보였고 한 검증 도구에서 기존 최고 기법인 VSI에 이어 두 번째로 좋은 성능을 보였으며 실행 속도는 VSI에 대해 평균 약 20% 개선된 결과를 얻었다. 또한 기존의 기법들 보다 더 인간 시각 시스템과 제안 기법의 품질 평가 값의 연관성이 크게 존재함을 확인하였다.

To assess image quality accurately, an image quality assessment (IQA) metric is required to reflect the human visual system (HVS) properly. In other words, the structure, color, and contrast ratio of the image should be evaluated in consideration of various factors. In addition, as mobile embedded devices such as smartphone become popular, a fast computing speed is important. In this paper, the proposed IQA metric combines color similarity, gradient similarity, and phase similarity synergistically to satisfy the HVS and is designed by using optimized pooling and quantization for fast computation. The proposed IQA metric is compared against existing 13 methods using 4 kinds of evaluation methods. The experimental results show that the proposed IQA metric ranks the first on 3 evaluation methods and the first on the remaining method, next to VSI which is the most remarkable IQA metric. Its computing speed is on average about 20% faster than VSI's. In addition, we find that the proposed IQA metric has a bigger amount of correlation with the HVS than existing IQA metrics.

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연구 과제 주관 기관 : 한국연구재단

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