Contrast gain control for color image quality

Michael D'Zmura; Tsae-Pyng Janice Shen; Wei Wu; Homer Chen; Marius S. Vassiliou

doi:10.1117/12.320111

17 July 1998 Contrast gain control for color image quality

Michael D'Zmura, Tsae-Pyng Janice Shen, Wei Wu, Homer Chen, Marius S. Vassiliou

Proceedings Volume 3299, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.320111
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We derive a visual image quality metric from a model of human visual processing that takes as its input an original image and a compressed or otherwise altered version of that image. The model has multiple channels tuned to spatial frequency, orientation and color. Channel sensitivities are scaled to match a bandpass achromatic spatial frequency contrast sensitivity function (CSF) and lowpass chromatic CSFs. The model has a constant gain control with parameters based on the results of human psychophysical experiments on pattern masking and contrast induction. These experiments have shown that contrast gain control within the visual system is selective for spatial frequency, orientation and color. The model accommodates this result by placing a contrast gain control within each channel and by letting each channel's gain control be influenced selectively by contrasts within all channels. A simple extension to this model provides predictions of color image quality.

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Michael D'Zmura, Tsae-Pyng Janice Shen, Wei Wu, Homer Chen, and Marius S. Vassiliou "Contrast gain control for color image quality", Proc. SPIE 3299, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging III, (17 July 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.320111

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