Abstract
Abstract Mean squared error (MSE) has long been the most useful objective image quality assessment (IQA) metric due to its mathematical tractability and computational simplicity, although it has shown poor correlations with the perceived visual quality for distorted images. Contrary to the MSE, recent IQA methods are more closely related with measured visual quality. However, their applications are somewhat limited due to their heavy computational costs and inapplicability in optimization process. In order to develop a better IQA method that will be closer to the perceived visual quality, the authors aimed to incorporate simple yet powerful linear features into the form of MSE while retaining the advantages of computational simplicity and desirable mathematical properties of MSE. Through comprehensive experiments, the authors found that Difference of Gaussians (DoG) kernel significantly improves the prediction performance while keeping the aforementioned advantages in the form of MSE. The proposed method performs better as the DoG filtering well approximates the behaviors of neural response functions in the visual cortex of the human visual system, thus extracting perceptually important features. At the same time, it holds the computational simplicity and mathematical properties of MSE since DoG is a very simple linear kernel. Their extensive experiments showed that the proposed method provides competitive prediction performance to the recent IQA methods with a significantly lower computational complexity.
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