A multi-channel objective model for the Full-Reference assessment of color pictures

This paper presents a new approach for the design of a full reference objective quality metric for the assessment of color pictures. Our goal is to build a multi-channel metric based on the perceptual weighting of single-channel metrics. A psycho-visual experiment is thus designed in order to determine the values of the weighting factors. This metric is expected to provide a new useful tool for the quality assessment of compressed pictures in the framework of codec performance evaluation.