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Objective color image quality assessment based on Sobel magnitude

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Image quality assessment algorithms aim to evaluate the perceptual quality of an image by assigning an evaluation score. By comparing the scores, the perceptual similarity or difference between two images can be assessed. In this paper, we present a new full-reference image quality metric method which was developed by combining Sobel magnitude and chrominance information in the YIQ color space. But differing from existing methods, our model incorporates color intensity adaptation to extract and enhance perceptually significant image features. The proposed metrics are tested on three well-known databases available in the literature (TID2013, TID2008, and CSIQ). Experimental results presented to confirm that the proposed metric is an effective and have low computational complexity.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

    Savita Gupta

  2. Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment-Research and Development Center (SASE-RDC), Him Parisar, Plot No. 1, Sector 37A, Chandigarh, UT, 160036, India

    Akshay Gore, Satish Kumar & Sneh Mani

  3. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India

    Satish Kumar & P. K. Srivastava

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Gupta, S., Gore, A., Kumar, S. et al. Objective color image quality assessment based on Sobel magnitude. SIViP 11, 123–128 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-016-0910-9

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