Quality Assessment for Comparing Image Enhancement Algorithms

• Published in: 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 3003 - 3010
• Main Authors: Chen, Zhengying, Jiang, Tingting, Tian, Yonghong
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computer vision; Conferences; enhancement algorithm; Feature extraction; Image enhancement; Image quality; Labeling; Pattern recognition; Prediction algorithms; Quality assessment; Ranking; Silicon; Subjective assessment; Training
• ISSN: 1063-6919; 1063-6919
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2014.384

As the image enhancement algorithms developed in recent years, how to compare the performances of different image enhancement algorithms becomes a novel task. In this paper, we propose a framework to do quality assessment for comparing image enhancement algorithms. Not like traditional image quality assessment approaches, we focus on the relative quality ranking between enhanced images rather than giving an absolute quality score for a single enhanced image. We construct a dataset which contains source images in bad visibility and their enhanced images processed by different enhancement algorithms, and then do subjective assessment in a pair-wise way to get the relative ranking of these enhanced images. A rank function is trained to fit the subjective assessment results, and can be used to predict ranks of new enhanced images which indicate the relative quality of enhancement algorithms. The experimental results show that our proposed approach statistically outperforms state-of-the-art general-purpose NR-IQA algorithms.