METRICS PERFORMANCE COMPARISON FOR COLOR IMAGE DATABASE

In this paper, we exploit a new database of distorted test images TID2008 for verification of full-reference metrics of image visual quality. A comparative analysis of TID20008 and its nearest analog LIVE Database is presented. For a wide variety of known metrics, their correspondence to human visual system is evaluated. The values of rank correlations of Spearman and Kendall with the considered metrics and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) obtained by exploiting TID2008 in experiments are presented. The metrics are verified for both full set of distorted test images in TID2008 (1700 distorted images, 17 types of distortions) and for particular subsets of TID2008 that include distortions most important for digital image processing applications.

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