Toward objective image quality metrics: the AIC Eval Program of the JPEG

Thomas Richter; Chaker Larabi

doi:10.1117/12.795096

15 September 2008 Toward objective image quality metrics: the AIC Eval Program of the JPEG

Thomas Richter, Chaker Larabi

Proceedings Volume 7073, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI; 70730X (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.795096
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Objective quality assessment of lossy image compression codecs is an important part of the recent call of the JPEG for Advanced Image Coding. The target of the AIC ad-hoc group is twofold: First, to receive state-of-the-art still image codecs and to propose suitable technology for standardization; and second, to study objective image quality metrics to evaluate the performance of such codes. Even tthough the performance of an objective metric is defined by how well it predicts the outcome of a subjective assessment, one can also study the usefulness of a metric in a non-traditional way indirectly, namely by measuring the subjective quality improvement of a codec that has been optimized for a specific objective metric. This approach shall be demonstrated here on the recently proposed HDPhoto format¹⁴ introduced by Microsoft and a SSIM-tuned¹⁷ version of it by one of the authors. We compare these two implementations with JPEG¹ in two variations and a visual and PSNR optimal JPEG2000¹³ implementation. To this end, we use subjective and objective tests based on the multiscale SSIM and a new DCT based metric.

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Thomas Richter and Chaker Larabi "Toward objective image quality metrics: the AIC Eval Program of the JPEG", Proc. SPIE 7073, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI, 70730X (15 September 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.795096

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