Mobile Multimedia Communications. 7th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2011, Cagliari, Italy, September 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Edge Preservation

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_3,
        author={Maria Martini and Barbara Villarini and Federico Fiorucci},
        title={Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Edge Preservation},
        proceedings={Mobile Multimedia Communications. 7th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2011, Cagliari, Italy, September 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Edge detection image quality assessment reduced-reference quality index mean opinion score (MOS) SSIM},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_3}
    }
    
  • Maria Martini
    Barbara Villarini
    Federico Fiorucci
    Year: 2012
    Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Edge Preservation
    MOBIMEDIA
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_3
Maria Martini1, Barbara Villarini2, Federico Fiorucci2
  • 1: Kingston University London
  • 2: University of Perugia

Abstract

Assessing the subjective quality of processed images through an objective quality metric is a key issue in multimedia processing and transmission. In some scenarios, it is also important to evaluate the quality of the received images with minimal reference to the transmitted ones. For instance, for closed-loop optimisation of image and video transmission, the quality measure can be evaluated at the receiver and provided as feedback information to the system controller. The original images - prior to compression and transmission - are not usually available at the receiver side, and it is important to rely at the receiver side on an objective quality metric that does not need reference or needs minimal reference to the original images.