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Perceptual image preview

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Image preview is a convenient way to browse large or multiple images on small displays. However, current signal-level image resampling algorithms may remove many features of interest in the preview image. In this paper, we propose perceptual image preview which retains more perceptual features such that users can inspect features of interest by viewing the preview image only and without zooming in. This technology has two components, structure enhancement and perceptual feature visualization. Structure enhancement enhances the image structure while suppressing subtle details using a gradient modulation method, thus making the succedent perceptual features more apparent. For perceptual feature visualization, features of interest detected in the picture is visualized on the structure enhanced preview image. We demonstrate with two examples of most commonly used image quality features, image blur and noise. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by experimental results.

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  1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

    Liang Wan & Tien-Tsin Wong

  2. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Feng & Zhi-Qiang Liu

  3. Microsoft Research, Asia, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Zhouchen Lin

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Wan, L., Feng, W., Lin, Z. et al. Perceptual image preview. Multimedia Systems 14, 195–204 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-008-0114-4

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