In-place Double Stimulus Methodology for Subjective Assessment of High Quality Images

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Hauptverfasser: Mohammadi, Shima, Jenadeleh, Mohsen, Testolina, Michela, Sneyers, Jon, Ebrahimi, Touradj, Saupe, Dietmar, Ascenso, João
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author Mohammadi, Shima
Jenadeleh, Mohsen
Testolina, Michela
Sneyers, Jon
Ebrahimi, Touradj
Saupe, Dietmar
Ascenso, João
author_facet Mohammadi, Shima
Jenadeleh, Mohsen
Testolina, Michela
Sneyers, Jon
Ebrahimi, Touradj
Saupe, Dietmar
Ascenso, João
contents This paper introduces a novel double stimulus subjective assessment methodology for the evaluation of high quality images to address the limitations of existing protocols in detecting subtle perceptual differences. The In-place Double Stimulus Quality Scale (IDSQS) allows subjects to alternately view a reference and a distorted image at the same spatial location, facilitating a more intuitive detection of differences in quality, especially at high to visually lossless quality levels. A large-scale crowdsourcing study employing this methodology was conducted, generating a comprehensive public dataset to evaluate perceived image quality across several compression algorithms and distortion levels. An additional contribution is the modeling of quality scores using a Beta distribution, allowing for the assessment of variability and subject consistency. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the IDSQS methodology in achieving high correlation with more precise subjective evaluation benchmarks. The dataset, subjective data, and graphical user interface developed for this study are publicly available at https://github.com/shimamohammadi/IDSQS
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spellingShingle In-place Double Stimulus Methodology for Subjective Assessment of High Quality Images
Mohammadi, Shima
Jenadeleh, Mohsen
Testolina, Michela
Sneyers, Jon
Ebrahimi, Touradj
Saupe, Dietmar
Ascenso, João
Multimedia
This paper introduces a novel double stimulus subjective assessment methodology for the evaluation of high quality images to address the limitations of existing protocols in detecting subtle perceptual differences. The In-place Double Stimulus Quality Scale (IDSQS) allows subjects to alternately view a reference and a distorted image at the same spatial location, facilitating a more intuitive detection of differences in quality, especially at high to visually lossless quality levels. A large-scale crowdsourcing study employing this methodology was conducted, generating a comprehensive public dataset to evaluate perceived image quality across several compression algorithms and distortion levels. An additional contribution is the modeling of quality scores using a Beta distribution, allowing for the assessment of variability and subject consistency. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the IDSQS methodology in achieving high correlation with more precise subjective evaluation benchmarks. The dataset, subjective data, and graphical user interface developed for this study are publicly available at https://github.com/shimamohammadi/IDSQS
title In-place Double Stimulus Methodology for Subjective Assessment of High Quality Images
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09777