Author(s)

Yufeng Gu ¹, Kejian Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, China

Corresponding Author

Yufeng Gu

ABSTRACT

In order to meet the needs of the objective evaluation of no-reference image, a no-reference image quality measure is presented. The measure is based on edge analysis and is suitable for images with noise. Taking properties of the Human Visual System(HVS) into account, we compute the probability of blur after getting the edge width and the local contrasts. And at last the image quality probability can be got considering cumulative probability of blur detection and the noise pollution degree. Experimental results show that the metric has a wide application, good anti-noise ability, simple calculation, as well as in high consistence with the subjective evaluation results.

KEYWORDS

No-reference; Image Quality Assessment; CPBD; Noise pollution.

CITE THIS PAPER

Yufeng, G. and Kejian, Y. (2016) A no-reference image quality measure based on CPBD and noise. Journal of Electronics and Information Science (2016) 1: 11-16.

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