Analysis of HVS-Metrics' Properties Using Color Image Database TID2013

Various full-reference FR image quality metrics indices that take into account peculiarities of human vision system HVS have been proposed during last decade. Most of them have been already tested on several image databases including TID2013, a recently proposed database of distorted color images. Metrics performance is usually characterized by the rank order correlation coefficients of the considered metric and a mean opinion score MOS. In this paper, we characterize HVS-metrics from another practically important viewpoint. We determine and analyze image statistics such as mean and standard deviation for several state of the art quality metrics on classes of images with multiple or particular types of distortions. This allows setting threshold values for a given metric and application.

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