Frequency-domain Blind Quality Assessment of Blurred and Blocking-artefact Images using Gaussian Process Regression model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02753v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 19:20:55 GMT
• Title: Frequency-domain Blind Quality Assessment of Blurred and Blocking-artefact Images using Gaussian Process Regression model
• Authors: Maryam Viqar, Athar A. Moinuddin, Ekram Khan, M. Ghanbari
• Abstract summary: Most of the standard image and video codecs are block-based and depending upon the compression ratio the compressed images/videos suffer from different distortions. This paper proposes a methodology to blindly measure overall quality of an image suffering from these distortions, individually as well as jointly. It is relatively fast compared to many state-of-art methods, and therefore is suitable for real-time quality monitoring applications.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Most of the standard image and video codecs are block-based and depending upon the compression ratio the compressed images/videos suffer from different distortions. At low ratios, blurriness is observed and as compression increases blocking artifacts occur. Generally, in order to reduce blockiness, images are low-pass filtered which leads to more blurriness. Also, in bokeh mode images they are commonly seen: blurriness as a result of intentional blurred background while blocking artifact and global blurriness arising due to compression. Therefore, such visual media suffer from both blockiness and blurriness distortions. Along with this, noise is also commonly encountered distortion. Most of the existing works on quality assessment quantify these distortions individually. This paper proposes a methodology to blindly measure overall quality of an image suffering from these distortions, individually as well as jointly. This is achieved by considering the sum of absolute values of low and high-frequency Discrete Frequency Transform (DFT) coefficients defined as sum magnitudes. The number of blocks lying in specific ranges of sum magnitudes including zero-valued AC coefficients and mean of 100 maximum and 100 minimum values of these sum magnitudes are used as feature vectors. These features are then fed to the Machine Learning (ML) based Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model, which quantifies the image quality. The simulation results show that the proposed method can estimate the quality of images distorted with the blockiness, blurriness, noise and their combinations. It is relatively fast compared to many state-of-art methods, and therefore is suitable for real-time quality monitoring applications.

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