Image Evaluation Based on Region of Interest

2013 ◽  
Vol 339 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Jun Qing Liu ◽  
Lei Ma ◽  
Yan Xiang ◽  
San Li Yi ◽  
Hong Lei Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Image Evaluation ◽  
Visual Evaluation ◽  
Edge Structure ◽  
Structure Similarity ◽  
Weighted Combination ◽  
Dual Scale

Image quality assessment has broad applications in many fields, how to assess the quality of the image is an attractive research topic. In this paper, a ROIMDE method is proposed based on region of interest (ROI) and dual-scale edge structure similarity (SSIM), the quality assessment of the image is a weighted combination of ROI and non-ROI, the dual-scale edge structure similarity is used in ROI, and the classical structure similarity is applied in non-ROI. Experimental results show that, considering the influence of ROI, our model is more consistent with human subjective visual evaluation.

scholarly journals Interobserver variability in quality assessment of magnetic resonance images

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafal Obuchowicz ◽  
Mariusz Oszust ◽  
Adam Piorkowski
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Interobserver Variability ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Images ◽  
Perceptual Quality ◽  
Mr Images

Abstract Background The perceptual quality of magnetic resonance (MR) images influences diagnosis and may compromise the treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the image quality changes influence the interobserver variability of their assessment. Methods For the variability evaluation, a dataset containing distorted MRI images was prepared and then assessed by 31 experienced medical professionals (radiologists). Differences between observers were analyzed using the Fleiss’ kappa. However, since the kappa evaluates the agreement among radiologists taking into account aggregated decisions, a typically employed criterion of the image quality assessment (IQA) performance was used to provide a more thorough analysis. The IQA performance of radiologists was evaluated by comparing the Spearman correlation coefficients, ρ, between individual scores with the mean opinion scores (MOS) composed of the subjective opinions of the remaining professionals. Results The experiments show that there is a significant agreement among radiologists (κ=0.12; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.118, 0.121; P<0.001) on the quality of the assessed images. The resulted κ is strongly affected by the subjectivity of the assigned scores, separately presenting close scores. Therefore, the ρ was used to identify poor performance cases and to confirm the consistency of the majority of collected scores (ρmean = 0.5706). The results for interns (ρmean = 0.6868) supports the finding that the quality assessment of MR images can be successfully taught. Conclusions The agreement observed among radiologists from different imaging centers confirms the subjectivity of the perception of MR images. It was shown that the image content and severity of distortions affect the IQA. Furthermore, the study highlights the importance of the psychosomatic condition of the observers and their attitude.

scholarly journals DLNR-SIQA: Deep Learning-Based No-Reference Stitched Image Quality Assessment

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6457
Author(s):  
Hayat Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Kyungjin Han ◽  
Jong Weon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Panoramic Images ◽  
Stitching Errors

Due to recent advancements in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), the demand for high quality immersive contents is a primary concern for production companies and consumers. Similarly, the topical record-breaking performance of deep learning in various domains of artificial intelligence has extended the attention of researchers to contribute to different fields of computer vision. To ensure the quality of immersive media contents using these advanced deep learning technologies, several learning based Stitched Image Quality Assessment methods have been proposed with reasonable performances. However, these methods are unable to localize, segment, and extract the stitching errors in panoramic images. Further, these methods used computationally complex procedures for quality assessment of panoramic images. With these motivations, in this paper, we propose a novel three-fold Deep Learning based No-Reference Stitched Image Quality Assessment (DLNR-SIQA) approach to evaluate the quality of immersive contents. In the first fold, we fined-tuned the state-of-the-art Mask R-CNN (Regional Convolutional Neural Network) on manually annotated various stitching error-based cropped images from the two publicly available datasets. In the second fold, we segment and localize various stitching errors present in the immersive contents. Finally, based on the distorted regions present in the immersive contents, we measured the overall quality of the stitched images. Unlike existing methods that only measure the quality of the images using deep features, our proposed method can efficiently segment and localize stitching errors and estimate the image quality by investigating segmented regions. We also carried out extensive qualitative and quantitative comparison with full reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) and no reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) on two publicly available datasets, where the proposed system outperformed the existing state-of-the-art techniques.

scholarly journals Face Image Quality Assessment: A Literature Survey

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Schlett ◽  
Christian Rathgeb ◽  
Olaf Henniger ◽  
Javier Galbally ◽  
Julian Fierrez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Face Image ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
The Face ◽  
Future Work

The performance of face analysis and recognition systems depends on the quality of the acquired face data, which is influenced by numerous factors. Automatically assessing the quality of face data in terms of biometric utility can thus be useful to detect low-quality data and make decisions accordingly. This survey provides an overview of the face image quality assessment literature, which predominantly focuses on visible wavelength face image input. A trend towards deep learning based methods is observed, including notable conceptual differences among the recent approaches, such as the integration of quality assessment into face recognition models. Besides image selection, face image quality assessment can also be used in a variety of other application scenarios, which are discussed herein. Open issues and challenges are pointed out, i.a. highlighting the importance of comparability for algorithm evaluations, and the challenge for future work to create deep learning approaches that are interpretable in addition to providing accurate utility predictions.

scholarly journals Full Reference-Image Quality Assessment with Global and Local Image Regions for Visual Quality Perception and Optimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S4) ◽  
pp. 352-356
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Mathematical Properties ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Image

Quality Assessment (IQA) by using mathematical methods is offering favorable results in calculating visual quality of distorted images. These methods are developed by examining effective features that are compatible with characteristics of Human Visual System (HVS). But many of those methods are difficult to apply for optimization problems. This paper presents DCT based metric with easy implementation and having mathematical properties like differentiability, convexity and valid distance metricability to overcome the optimization problems. By using this method we are able to calculate the quality of image as a whole as well as the quality of local image regions.

scholarly journals Improving the Neural Network Algorithm for Assessing the Quality of Facial Images

2020 ◽  
pp. paper28-1-paper28-12
Author(s):  
Nikita Lisin ◽  
Alexander Gromov ◽  
Vadim Konushin ◽  
Anton Konushin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Neural Network Algorithm ◽  
Baseline Algorithm ◽  
Facial Images

The paper considers the task of obtaining a quality assessment of facial images for usage in various video surveillance systems, video analytics, and biometric identification. The accuracy of person recognition and classification depends on the quality of the input images. We consider an approach to obtaining single face image quality assessment using a neural network model, which is trained on pairs of images that are split into two possible classes: the quality of the first image is better or worse than the quality of the second one. Two modifications of the selected baseline algorithm are proposed. A face recognition system is applied to change the loss function and image and face quality attributes are used when training the model. Experimental studies of the proposed modifications show their effectiveness. The accuracy of selecting the best and worst frame is increased by 1.3% and 1.9%, respectively.

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