PMID- 18632337
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080916
LR  - 20080717
IS  - 1057-7149 (Print)
IS  - 1057-7149 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 8
DP  - 2008 Aug
TI  - Structural similarity quality metrics in a coding context: exploring the space of 
      realistic distortions.
PG  - 1261-73
LID - 10.1109/TIP.2008.926161 [doi]
AB  - Perceptual image quality metrics have explicitly accounted for human visual 
      system (HVS) sensitivity to subband noise by estimating just noticeable 
      distortion (JND) thresholds. A recently proposed class of quality metrics, known 
      as structural similarity metrics (SSIM), models perception implicitly by taking 
      into account the fact that the HVS is adapted for extracting structural 
      information from images. We evaluate SSIM metrics and compare their performance 
      to traditional approaches in the context of realistic distortions that arise from 
      compression and error concealment in video compression/transmission applications. 
      In order to better explore this space of distortions, we propose models for 
      simulating typical distortions encountered in such applications. We compare 
      specific SSIM implementations both in the image space and the wavelet domain; 
      these include the complex wavelet SSIM (CWSSIM), a translation-insensitive SSIM 
      implementation. We also propose a perceptually weighted multiscale variant of 
      CWSSIM, which introduces a viewing distance dependence and provides a natural way 
      to unify the structural similarity approach with the traditional JND-based 
      perceptual approaches.
FAU - Brooks, Alan C
AU  - Brooks AC
AD  - Defensive Systems Division, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Rolling Meadows, IL 
      60008, USA. alancbrooks@gmail.com
FAU - Zhao, Xiaonan
AU  - Zhao X
FAU - Pappas, Thrasyvoulos N
AU  - Pappas TN
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - IEEE Trans Image Process
JT  - IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal 
      Processing Society
JID - 9886191
SB  - IM
MH  - Algorithms
MH  - *Artifacts
MH  - Data Compression/*methods
MH  - Image Enhancement/*methods
MH  - Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/*methods
MH  - Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted
MH  - Pattern Recognition, Automated/*methods
MH  - Quality Control
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - *Subtraction Technique
MH  - Video Recording/*methods
EDAT- 2008/07/18 09:00
MHDA- 2008/09/17 09:00
CRDT- 2008/07/18 09:00
PHST- 2008/07/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/09/17 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/07/18 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1109/TIP.2008.926161 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - IEEE Trans Image Process. 2008 Aug;17(8):1261-73. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2008.926161.