GPU Based Image Quality Assessment using Structural Similarity (SSIM) Index

2016 ◽  
pp. 276-282
Author(s):  
Mahesh Satish Khadtare
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Video Processing ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Computationally Intensive

This chapter deals with performance analysis of CUDA implementation of an image quality assessment tool based on structural similarity index (SSI). Since it had been initial created at the University of Texas in 2002, the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) image assessment algorithm has become a valuable tool for still image and video processing analysis. SSIM provided a big giant over MSE (Mean Square Error) and PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) techniques because it way more closely aligned with the results that would have been obtained with subjective testing. For objective image analysis, this new technique represents as significant advancement over SSIM as the advancement that SSIM provided over PSNR. The method is computationally intensive and this poses issues in places wherever real time quality assessment is desired. We tend to develop a CUDA implementation of this technique that offers a speedup of approximately 30 X on Nvidia GTX275 and 80 X on C2050 over Intel single core processor.

scholarly journals No-Reference Blurred Image Quality Assessment by Structural Similarity Index

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haopeng Zhang ◽  
Bo Yuan ◽  
Bo Dong ◽  
Zhiguo Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Luminance Contrast ◽  
Structural Similarity Index ◽  
Contrast Structure ◽  
Blurred Image

No-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) objectively measures the image quality consistently with subjective evaluations by using only the distorted image. In this paper, we focus on the problem of NR IQA for blurred images and propose a new no-reference structural similarity (NSSIM) metric based on re-blur theory and structural similarity index (SSIM). We extract blurriness features and define image blurriness by grayscale distribution. NSSIM scores an image quality by calculating image luminance, contrast, structure and blurriness. The proposed NSSIM metric can evaluate image quality immediately without prior training or learning. Experimental results on four popular datasets show that the proposed metric outperforms SSIM and well-matched to state-of-the-art NR IQA models. Furthermore, we apply NSSIM with known IQA approaches to blurred image restoration and demonstrate that NSSIM is statistically superior to peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), SSIM and consistent with the state-of-the-art NR IQA models.

scholarly journals No-Reference Digital Image Quality Assessment Based on Structure Similarity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basma Ahmed ◽  
Mohamed Abdel-Nasser ◽  
Osama A. Omer ◽  
Amal Rashed ◽  
Domenec Puig
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Structural Similarity Index ◽  
Spectral Kurtosis ◽  
Blurred Image ◽  
Blind Restoration ◽  
Index Measure

Blind or non-referential image quality assessment (NR-IQA) indicates the problem of evaluating the visual quality of an image without any reference, Therefore, the need to develop a new measure that does not depend on the reference pristine image. This paper presents a NR-IQA method based on restoration scheme and a structural similarity index measure (SSIM). Specifically, we use blind restoration schemes for blurred images by reblurring the blurred image and then we use it as a reference image. Finally, we use the SSIM as a full reference metric. The experiments performed on standard test images as well as medical images. The results demonstrated that our results using a structural similarity index measure are better than other methods such as spectral kurtosis-based method.

Entirely Blind Image Quality Assessment Estimator

2014 ◽  
Vol 543-547 ◽  
pp. 2496-2499
Author(s):  
Abdalmajeed Saifeldeen ◽  
Shu Hong Jiao ◽  
Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Natural Image ◽  
Natural Scenes

Prior knowledge about anticipated distortions and their corresponding human opinion scores is needed in the most general purpose no-reference image quality assessment algorithms. When creating the model, all distortion types may not be existed. Predicting the quality of distorted images in practical no-reference image quality assessment algorithms is devised without prior knowledge about images or their distortions. In this study, a blind/no-reference opinion and distortion unaware image quality assessment algorithm based on natural scenes is developed. The proposed approach uses a set of novel features to measure image quality in a spatial domain. The extracted features which are from the scenes gist are formed using Weibull distribution statistics. When testing the proposed algorithm on LIVE database, experiments show that it correlates well with subjective opinion scores. They also show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the popular full-reference peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity (SSIM) methods. Not only do the results reasonably well compete with the recently developed natural image quality evaluator (NIQE) model, but also outperform it.

scholarly journals Content-Aware Retargeted Image Quality Assessment

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Zhang ◽  
Ming Yu ◽  
Yingchun Guo ◽  
Yi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Similarity Algorithm ◽  
Significant Area ◽  
Speed Up Robust Feature ◽  
Content Aware

In targeting the low correlation between existing image scaling quality assessment methods and subjective awareness, a content-aware retargeted image quality assessment algorithm is proposed, which is based on the structural similarity index. In this paper, a similarity index, that is, a local structural similarity algorithm, which can measure different sizes of the same image is proposed. The Speed Up Robust Feature (SURF) algorithm is used to extract the local structural similarity and the image content loss degree. The significant area ratio is calculated by extracting the saliency region and the retargeted image quality assessment function is obtained by linear fusion. In the CUHK image database and the MIT RetargetMe database, compared with four representative assessment algorithms and other latest four kinds of retargeted image quality assessment algorithms, the experiment proves that the proposed algorithm has a higher correlation with Mean Opinion Score (MOS) values and corresponds with the result of human subjective assessment.

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