arXiv:2410.09501cs.CV2024-10被引 8

提出细粒度图像质量评估方法,精准捕捉压缩带来的细微差异。

Fine-grained subjective visual quality assessment for high-fidelity compressed images

  • 用增强刺激法提升观察者对压缩失真的感知力
  • 构建高精度JND单位质量量表,可分辨微小质量变化
  • 适合图像质量研究、压缩算法优化等场景

图像压缩、存储与显示技术的进步使高质量图像和视频广泛普及。在如此高保真度下,区分压缩与原始内容变得困难,亟需能检测微小视觉差异的评估方法。传统主观评价多采用从“优秀”到“差”的绝对等级评分,适用于明显失真,但难以捕捉细微差别。JPEG标准项目AIC正在开发高保真图像的主观质量评估方法。本文提出评估方法、一个高质量压缩图像数据集及其众包评分结果,并介绍一种将质量尺度重构为刚刚可察觉差异(JND)单位的数据分析方法。通过在视觉刺激上应用提升技术,帮助观察者更清晰地识别压缩伪影,再经重标定将增强后的质量值还原至原始感知尺度。该方法生成细粒度、高精度的JND量表,为实际应用提供更丰富信息。数据集与代码将公开于 https://github.com/jpeg-aic/dataset-BTC-PTC-24。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Advances in image compression, storage, and display technologies have made high-quality images and videos widely accessible. At this level of quality, distinguishing between compressed and original content becomes difficult, highlighting the need for assessment methodologies that are sensitive to even the smallest visual quality differences. Conventional subjective visual quality assessments often use absolute category rating scales, ranging from ``excellent'' to ``bad''. While suitable for evaluating more pronounced distortions, these scales are inadequate for detecting subtle visual differences. The JPEG standardization project AIC is currently developing a subjective image quality assessment methodology for high-fidelity images. This paper presents the proposed assessment methods, a dataset of high-quality compressed images, and their corresponding crowdsourced visual quality ratings. It also outlines a data analysis approach that reconstructs quality scale values in just noticeable difference (JND) units. The assessment method uses boosting techniques on visual stimuli to help observers detect compression artifacts more clearly. This is followed by a rescaling process that adjusts the boosted quality values back to the original perceptual scale. This reconstruction yields a fine-grained, high-precision quality scale in JND units, providing more informative results for practical applications. The dataset and code to reproduce the results will be available at https://github.com/jpeg-aic/dataset-BTC-PTC-24.

图像质量感知评估压缩感知JND

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