On the relation between contrast and the perception of visual complexity

We propose a measure of visual complexity for real-world images. Specifically, our measure is based on the statistics of contrast distribution of the visual compositions. Here, we use a dataset of 74 streetscapes consisting of dayscapes and nightscapes captured in Algeria and Japan. The proposed objective measure and subjective ratings exhibit correlation coefficient of 0.66 whilst the state-of-art only exhibits 0.36 of correlation for this dataset. Keywords— Image contrast, Visual complexity, Per-