IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Image Media Quality
Objective Estimation Methods for the Quality of HDR Images and Their Evaluation with Subjective Assessment
Hirofumi TAKANONaoyuki AWANOKenji SUGIYAMA
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2015 Volume E98.A Issue 8 Pages 1689-1695

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High dynamic range (HDR) images that include large differences in brightness levels are studied to address the lack of knowledge on the quality estimation method for real HDR images. For this, we earlier proposed a new metric, the independent signal-to-noise ratio (ISNR), using the independent pixel value as the signal instead of the peak value (PSNR). Next, we proposed the local peak signal-to-noise ratio (LPSNR), using the maximum value of neighboring pixels, as an improved version. However, these methods did not sufficiently consider human perception. To address this issue, here we proposed an objective estimation method that considers spatial frequency characteristics based on the actual brightness. In this method, the approximated function for human characteristics is calculated and used as a 2D filter on an FFT for spatial frequency weighting. In order to confirm the usefulness of this objective estimation method, we compared the results of the objective estimation with a subjective assessment. We used the organic EL display which has a perfect contrast ratio for the subjective assessment. The results of experiments showed that perceptual weighting improves the correlation between the SNR and MOS of the subjective assessment. It is recognized that the weighted LPSNR gives the best correlation.

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