Blind image quality evaluation using the conditional histogram patterns of divisive normalization transform coefficients

A novel code book based framework for blind image quality assessment is developed. The code words are designed according to the image pattern of joint conditional histograms among neighboring divisive normalization transform coefficients in degraded images. By extracting high dimensional perceptual features from different subjective score levels in the sample database, and by clustering the features to their centroids, the conditional histogram based code book is constructed. Objective image quality score is calculated by comparing the distances between extracted features and the code words. Experiments are performed on most current databases, and the results confirm the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach.

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