• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2012

An improved algorithm for image quality assessment is presented. First a simple model of human visual system, consisting of a nonlinear function and a 2-D filter, processes the input images. This filter has one user-defined parameter, whose value depends on the reference image. This way the algorithm can adapt to different scenarios. In the next step the average value of locally computed correlation coefficients between the two processed images is found. This criterion is closely related to the way in which human observer assesses image quality. Finally, image quality measure is computed as the average value of locally computed correlation coefficients, adjusted by the average correlation coefficient between the reference and error images. By this approach the proposed measure differentiates between the random and signal dependant distortions, which have different effects on human observer. Performance of the proposed quality measure is illustrated by examples involving images with different types of degradation.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1479-1494
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• 2020

As an important part of image processing, image demosaicking has been widely researched. It is especially necessary to propose an efficient interpolation algorithm with good visual quality and performance. To improve the limitations of residual interpolation (RI), based on RI algorithm, minimalized-Laplacian RI (MLRI), and iterative RI (IRI), this paper focuses on adaptive RI (ARI) and proposes an improved ARI (IARI) algorithm which obtains more distinct R, G, and B colors in the images. The proposed scheme fully considers the brightness information and edge information of the image. Since the ARI algorithm is not completely adaptive, IARI algorithm executes ARI algorithm twice on R and B components according to the directional difference, which surely achieves an adaptive algorithm for all color components. Experimental results show that the improved method has better performance than other four existing methods both in subjective assessment and objective assessment, especially in the complex edge area and color brightness recovery.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.316-320
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• 2009

In this paper, a reference-free perceptual quality metric is proposed for image assessment. It measures the amount of overall blockiness and blurring in the image. And edge-oriented artifacts, such as ringing, mosaic and staircase noise are also considered. In order to give a single quality score, the individual artifact scores are adaptively combined according to the difference between the edge-oriented artifacts and other artifacts. The quality score obtained by the proposed algorithm shows strong correlation with the MOS values by VQEG.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.849-858
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 열화된 영상의 화질을 평가함에 있어서 원본 영상을 참조할 필요가 없는 객관적인 평가 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 블록 기반의 손실 부호화 과정에서 발생 가능한 블록형 잡음 및 뭉개짐 현상의 정도를 정량화하며, 이와 함께 강한 에지 주변에서 특징적으로 나타나는 물결형 떨림, 계단형 떨림 및 모자이크 잡음 등을 정량화한다. 그리고 퍼지 적분을 이용하여 각각의 잡음의 정도를 통합하여 최종적인 점수를 계산함으로써 주어진 영상의 화질을 평가한다. 제안 알고리듬에 따라 얻어진 화질 평가 결과는 전문가 집단에 의한 주관적 화질 평가 결과와 높은 유사성을 보인다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.118-124
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• 2023

Many recent studies have reported that the quality of input learning data was vital to the detection of regions of interest. However, due to a lack of research on the quality of learning data on lesion detetcting using gastroscopy, we aimed to quantify the impact of quality difference in endoscopic images to lesion detection models using Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms. Through IQA methods such as BRISQUE (Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluation), Laplacian Score, and PSNR (Peak Signal-To-Noise) algorithm on 430 sheets of high quality data (HQD) and 430 sheets of low quality data (PQD), we showed that there were significant differences between high and low quality images in lesion detecting through BRISQUE and Laplacian scores (p<0.05). The PSNR value showed 10.62±1.76 dB on average, illustrating the lower lesion detection performance of PQD than HQD. In addition, F1-Score of HQD showed higher detection performance at 77.42±3.36% while F1-Score of PQD showed 66.82±9.07%. Through this study, we hope to contribute to future gastroscopy lesion detection assistance systems that involve IQA algorithms by emphasizing the importance of using high quality data over lower quality data.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.405-410
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• 2014

In this paper, we compare the quality of images reconstructed by a conventional delayed-sum (DS) algorithm and radiation pattern-based DS algorithm. In order to evaluate the quality of images, we apply the target-to-clutter ratio (TCR), which is commonly used in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image assessment. The radiation pattern-based DS algorithm enhances the TCR of the image by focusing the target signals and preventing contamination of the radar scene. We first consider synthetic data obtained through GprMax2D/3D, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) forward solver. Experimental data of a 2-GHz bandwidth stepped-frequency signal are collected using a vector network analyzer (VNA) in an anechoic chamber setup. The radiation pattern-based DS algorithm shows a 6.7-dB higher TCR compared to the conventional DS algorithm.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 비트스트림 기반의 객관적 비디오 화질 측정에 관한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 기존 방법이 복원된 비디오의 손상 정도로 화질을 측정하는 것이었다면, 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 비디오 코덱으로부터 복원 과정 중에 발생되는 파싱 데이터에서 화질을 측정하는 방법에 대한 것이다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 H.264/AVC 복호화기의 디블록킹 필터 안에 존재하는 경계 세기 값의 통계를 이용하여 화질 측정을 한다. 이는 기존의 EPSNR과 블록화 현상 알고리듬과 비교하여 낮은 연산 복잡도를 갖고, 실시간 화질 측정이 가능하다. 화질 측정 결과에서 주관적 화질 측정 결과와 비교해 높은 유사도를 보였고, 두 가지의 기존 방법과 비교하여 각각 32%, 65% 정도 더 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.592-606
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• 2011

Currently, the development of multimedia communication has progressed so rapidly that the video program service has become a requirement for ordinary customers. The quality of experience (QoE) for the visual signal is of the fundamental importance for numerous image and video processing applications, where the goal of video quality assessment (VQA) is to automatically measure the quality of the visual signal in agreement with the human judgment of the video quality. Considering the codec effect to the video quality, in this paper an efficient non-reference (NR) VQA algorithm is proposed which estimates the video quality (VQ) only by utilizing the distorted video signal at the destination. The VQA feature vectors (FVs) which have high relationships with the subjective quality of the distorted video are investigated, and a hybrid NR VQA (HNRVQA) function is established by considering the multiple FVs. The simulation results, testing on the SDTV programming provided by VCEG Phase I, show that the proposed algorithm can represent the VQ accurately, and it can be used to replace the subjective VQA to measure the quality of the video signal automatically at the destinations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2529-2543
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• 2019

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image can link with the microscopic world through reflecting interaction between electrons and materials. The SEM images are easily subject to blurring distortions during the imaging process. Inspired by the fact that dark channel prior captures the changes to blurred SEM images caused by the blur process, we propose a method to evaluate the SEM images sharpness based on the dark channel prior. A SEM image database is first established with mean opinion score collected as ground truth. For the quality assessment of the SEM image, the dark channel map is generated. Since blurring is typically characterized by the spread of edge, edge of dark channel map is extracted. Then noise is removed by an edge-preserving filter. Finally, the maximum gradient and the average gradient of image are combined to generate the final sharpness score. The experimental results on the SEM blurred image database show that the proposed algorithm outperforms both the existing state-of-the-art image sharpness metrics and the general-purpose no-reference quality metrics.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 단말기상의 출력영상을 기반으로 한 수신영상 복원 방법을 제안한다. 무선 네트워크를 통해 전송되는 비디오 스트리밍의 화질을 평가하기 위해서는 단말기로 전송된 수신 영상에 대한 정보가 필요하다. 그러나 실제 전송된 스트리밍 데이터를 단말기로부터 얻기가 용이하지 않기 때문에 일반적으로 다수의 사람이 직접 화질을 평가하는 방법이 많이 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 단말기로 수신된 스트리밍 영상을 획득하기 위하여 단말기 상에서 출력되는 영상을 기반으로 전송영상을 재구성한다. 이를 위하여 제안한 방법에서는 단말기를 통해 출력되는 영상을 카메라를 이용하여 획득하고, 획득된 영상에서 나타나는 카메라와 단말기 사이의 기하학적 왜곡과 컬러 왜곡을 모델링하여 제거함으로써 전송받은 영상을 재구성하였다. 실험 결과에서는 원영상과 재구성한 영상사이의 PSNR을 측정하여 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하였다. 그 결과 제안한 알고리즘을 통해 $27{sim}28dB$의 PSNR을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 EPSNR을 이용하여 제안한 알고리즘의 성능을 분석한 결과, 제안한 알고리즘을 통하여 예측된 영상이 MOS 테스트 스케일에서 비교적 좋은 범위에 속하는 것을 확인하였다.