Objective methods for assessing perceptual image quality traditionally attempted to quantify the visibility of errors (differences) between a distorted image and a reference image using a variety of known properties of the human visual system. Under the assumption that human visual perception is highly adapted for extracting structural information from a scene, we introduce an alternative complementary framework for quality assessment based on the degradation of structural information. As a specific example of this concept, we develop a structural similarity index and demonstrate its promise through a set of intuitive examples, as well as comparison to both subjective ratings and state-of-the-art objective methods on a database of images compressed with JPEG and JPEG2000. A MATLAB implementation of the proposed algorithm is available online at http://www.cns.nyu.edu//spl sim/lcv/ssim/.
%0 Journal Article
%1 2004-wang
%A Wang, Zhou
%A Bovik, A.C.
%A Sheikh, H.R.
%A Simoncelli, E.P.
%D 2004
%J IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
%K SSIM loss similarity structural
%N 4
%P 600-612
%R 10.1109/TIP.2003.819861
%T Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity
%U https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1284395/
%V 13
%X Objective methods for assessing perceptual image quality traditionally attempted to quantify the visibility of errors (differences) between a distorted image and a reference image using a variety of known properties of the human visual system. Under the assumption that human visual perception is highly adapted for extracting structural information from a scene, we introduce an alternative complementary framework for quality assessment based on the degradation of structural information. As a specific example of this concept, we develop a structural similarity index and demonstrate its promise through a set of intuitive examples, as well as comparison to both subjective ratings and state-of-the-art objective methods on a database of images compressed with JPEG and JPEG2000. A MATLAB implementation of the proposed algorithm is available online at http://www.cns.nyu.edu//spl sim/lcv/ssim/.
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abstract = {Objective methods for assessing perceptual image quality traditionally attempted to quantify the visibility of errors (differences) between a distorted image and a reference image using a variety of known properties of the human visual system. Under the assumption that human visual perception is highly adapted for extracting structural information from a scene, we introduce an alternative complementary framework for quality assessment based on the degradation of structural information. As a specific example of this concept, we develop a structural similarity index and demonstrate its promise through a set of intuitive examples, as well as comparison to both subjective ratings and state-of-the-art objective methods on a database of images compressed with JPEG and JPEG2000. A MATLAB implementation of the proposed algorithm is available online at http://www.cns.nyu.edu//spl sim/lcv/ssim/.},
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author = {Wang, Zhou and Bovik, A.C. and Sheikh, H.R. and Simoncelli, E.P.},
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doi = {10.1109/TIP.2003.819861},
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journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
keywords = {SSIM loss similarity structural},
month = {April},
number = 4,
pages = {600-612},
timestamp = {2021-07-06T20:55:30.000+0200},
title = {Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1284395/},
volume = 13,
year = 2004
}