A New Image Quality Assesment Metric
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چکیده
We study a variety of image deblocking algorithms for improving quality of visual signals degraded by blocking artifacts from compression. The image improvements afforded by these algorithms is measured using the PSNR, PSNR-B, and SSIM. Rather than relying on PSNR, which correlates poorly with subjective judgment, we propose a new Deblocking quality index that is sensitive to blocking artifacts in deblocked images. We name this peak signal-tonoise ratio including blocking effects (PSNR-B).The simulation results show that the proposed PSNR-B correlates well with subjective quality and with the SSIM index, and performs much better than the PSNR. Keywords— Image Quality, PSNR, SSIM, PSNR-B, Deblocking, Blocking Effect, Quantization
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