提出新指标MSIQ,无需重采样就能精准评估超分辨率图像的几何保真度。
MSIQ: Moment-based Scale-Invariant Quality Measure for Single Image Super-Resolution
- 基于归一化几何矩对比,实现不同分辨率图像直接比对
- 在缩放不变性测试中表现稳定,且对几何形变敏感
- 适合医疗影像、遥感等需高几何精度的领域
单图像超分辨率(SISR)结果的质量评估仍是开放性问题。现有全参考指标(如PSNR、SSIM、LPIPS)未显式评估图像几何结构的保留情况,而这一特性对基于尺度重建的正确性至关重要。此外,这些指标需强制将图像重采样至相同尺寸(强制重缩放),引入外部插值误差。本文提出一种基于归一化中心几何矩对比的诊断型无尺度质量度量方法——MSIQ(Moment-based Scale-Invariant Quality)。该方法可在不重缩放的前提下直接比较不同空间分辨率的图像,具有数学确定性(模型无关),并具备解析表达形式。为支持该方法,我们提出了度量工具在退化跟踪能力(tracking ability)与几何选择性(geometric specificity)之间的概念区分。实验验证了MSIQ在均匀缩放下的稳定性,并揭示传统指标对插值方法选择高度敏感。结果表明,MSIQ具有显著的几何选择性:能有效区分几何形变与非几何伪影(如JPEG压缩),优于基于像素或感知的指标。同时,其对结构扰动的响应在不同类别的超分辨率算法(包括不同架构的DNN模型)中保持稳定。该度量可作为几何保真度优先领域的补充诊断工具,尤其适用于医学成像和遥感领域。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Assessing the quality of single image super-resolution (SISR) results remains an open methodological problem. Common full-reference metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS) do not explicitly evaluate the preservation of the geometric structure of images, which is critical for the correctness of scale-based reconstruction. In addition, they require the forced alignment of images to the same size (\textit{forced resizing}), which introduces an external interpolation error into the evaluation process. This paper proposes a diagnostic scale-invariant quality measure, MSIQ (\textit{Moment-based Scale-Invariant Quality}), based on the comparison of normalized central geometric moments of two images. MSIQ enables direct comparison of images with different spatial resolutions without resizing, is mathematically deterministic (\textit{model-free}), and has an analytical form. To provide a theoretical basis for the approach, we introduce a conceptual distinction between the ability of metrics to monotonically track degradation (\textit{tracking ability}) and their geometric selectivity (\textit{geometric specificity}). The experimental validation confirmed the stability of MSIQ under uniform scaling and, at the same time, revealed the high sensitivity of traditional metrics to the choice of interpolation method. The results show that MSIQ has pronounced geometric selectivity: the proposed measure effectively separates geometric deformations from non-geometric artifacts, in particular JPEG compression, unlike pixel-based and perceptual metrics. It is also shown that the response of MSIQ to structural perturbations remains stable across different classes of SR algorithms, including DNN models with different architectures. The proposed measure is a complementary diagnostic tool for domains where geometric fidelity has priority, in particular medical imaging and remote sensing.
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