Image Quality Assessment Using Level-of-Detail

dc.contributor.advisorYang, Xue-Dong
dc.contributor.authorDosselmann, Richard Wayne
dc.contributor.committeememberGerhard, David
dc.contributor.committeememberYao, Yiyu
dc.contributor.committeememberFarenick, Douglas
dc.contributor.externalexaminerBarron, John
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-29T20:57:34Z
dc.date.available2013-10-29T20:57:34Z
dc.date.issued2012-07
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, University of Regina, xix, 198 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractImage quality assessment is a very challenging problem in image processing. Most image quality metrics are currently based on super cial variations in pixel values, perceptual models and structural changes. As well, most are full-reference metrics in which a corrupted image is compared with an \original" or \perfect" version of that image. In many practical settings, however, this \perfect" image is not available. At this time, no metric is able to genuinely replicate human perception of quality. This research therefore introduces a new image quality model, one that centers on level-of-detail. Furthermore, the proposed techniques operate without any \original" image, making them ideal for real-world applications such as television monitoring. In this research, level-of-detail is employed in both the initial detection and subsequent psychological evaluation of noise, blurring and compression. A given image is tested for noise and blurring using a new measure of detail in the frequency domain. For perhaps the rst time, it enables a machine to separate noisy, blurred and otherwise uncorrupted images. This decision is based on the slope of the cumulative histogram of the spectral energy values. Moreover, noise and blur are appropriately organized as \opposite" phenomena in this model, with noise corresponding to high levels of detail and blur being paired with lesser amounts. Once detected, the precise magnitude and speci c type of noise, whether it be random, Gaussian or salt-and-pepper, or blur, either isotropic or motion, is determined using individual noise and blur metrics. Using an alternate notion of level-of-detail based on the prominent mean shift segmentation algorithm, this time in the spatial domain, blocking and ringing metrics to detect and gauge the e ects of JPEG and JPEG2000 compression errors are de ned. All errors uncovered in an image are psychologically weighed in relation to surrounding image content. The goal is to determine which errors are perceptible and which are masked by neighboring pixels. Further motivating this research are the ndings of an investigation of a popular full-reference metric, namely the structural similarity index. Experimental test cases, a numerical analysis and a theoretical study link this method to the conventional mean squared error.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten
dc.description.peerreviewyesen
dc.description.uriA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy *, University of Regina. *, * p.en
dc.identifier.tcnumberTC-SRU-3772
dc.identifier.thesisurlhttp://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3772/Dosselmann_Richard_197702692_PhD_CS_Fall2012.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/3772
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Reginaen_US
dc.titleImage Quality Assessment Using Level-of-Detailen_US
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Reginaen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US

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