Fine-grained subjective visual quality assessment for high-fidelity compressed images
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| author | Testolina, Michela Jenadeleh, Mohsen Mohammadi, Shima Su, Shaolin Ascenso, Joao Ebrahimi, Touradj Sneyers, Jon Saupe, Dietmar |
| author_facet | Testolina, Michela Jenadeleh, Mohsen Mohammadi, Shima Su, Shaolin Ascenso, Joao Ebrahimi, Touradj Sneyers, Jon Saupe, Dietmar |
| contents | Advances in image compression, storage, and display technologies have made high-quality images and videos widely accessible. At this level of quality, distinguishing between compressed and original content becomes difficult, highlighting the need for assessment methodologies that are sensitive to even the smallest visual quality differences. Conventional subjective visual quality assessments often use absolute category rating scales, ranging from ``excellent'' to ``bad''. While suitable for evaluating more pronounced distortions, these scales are inadequate for detecting subtle visual differences. The JPEG standardization project AIC is currently developing a subjective image quality assessment methodology for high-fidelity images. This paper presents the proposed assessment methods, a dataset of high-quality compressed images, and their corresponding crowdsourced visual quality ratings. It also outlines a data analysis approach that reconstructs quality scale values in just noticeable difference (JND) units. The assessment method uses boosting techniques on visual stimuli to help observers detect compression artifacts more clearly. This is followed by a rescaling process that adjusts the boosted quality values back to the original perceptual scale. This reconstruction yields a fine-grained, high-precision quality scale in JND units, providing more informative results for practical applications. The dataset and code to reproduce the results will be available at https://github.com/jpeg-aic/dataset-BTC-PTC-24. |
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| spellingShingle | Fine-grained subjective visual quality assessment for high-fidelity compressed images Testolina, Michela Jenadeleh, Mohsen Mohammadi, Shima Su, Shaolin Ascenso, Joao Ebrahimi, Touradj Sneyers, Jon Saupe, Dietmar Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Advances in image compression, storage, and display technologies have made high-quality images and videos widely accessible. At this level of quality, distinguishing between compressed and original content becomes difficult, highlighting the need for assessment methodologies that are sensitive to even the smallest visual quality differences. Conventional subjective visual quality assessments often use absolute category rating scales, ranging from ``excellent'' to ``bad''. While suitable for evaluating more pronounced distortions, these scales are inadequate for detecting subtle visual differences. The JPEG standardization project AIC is currently developing a subjective image quality assessment methodology for high-fidelity images. This paper presents the proposed assessment methods, a dataset of high-quality compressed images, and their corresponding crowdsourced visual quality ratings. It also outlines a data analysis approach that reconstructs quality scale values in just noticeable difference (JND) units. The assessment method uses boosting techniques on visual stimuli to help observers detect compression artifacts more clearly. This is followed by a rescaling process that adjusts the boosted quality values back to the original perceptual scale. This reconstruction yields a fine-grained, high-precision quality scale in JND units, providing more informative results for practical applications. The dataset and code to reproduce the results will be available at https://github.com/jpeg-aic/dataset-BTC-PTC-24. |
| title | Fine-grained subjective visual quality assessment for high-fidelity compressed images |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09501 |