Determining quality of an image or video using a distortion classifier

摘要

Techniques and structures are disclosed in which one or more distortion categories are identified for an image or video, and a quality of the image or video is determined based on the one or more distortion categories. The image or video may be of a natural scene, and may be of unknown provenance. Identifying a distortion category and/or determining a quality may be performed without any corresponding reference (e.g., undistorted) image or video. Identifying a distortion category may be performed using a distortion classifier. Quality may be determined with respect to a plurality of human opinion scores that correspond to a particular distortion category to which an image or video of unknown provenance is identified as belonging. Various statistical methods may be used in performing said identifying and said determining, including use of generalized Gaussian distribution density models and natural scene statistics.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
a computer system identifying one or more distortion categories for one or more image frames, wherein the identifying is based on distorted image statistics for the one or more image frames; and the computer system determining a quality of the one or more image frames based on the identified one or more distortion categories by assessing one or more feature scores corresponding to one or more feature vectors of the one or more image frames, and mapping from a multidimensional space to a quality score, wherein the multidimensional space is defined by ranges for the one or more feature scores; wherein reference image frames for the one or more image frames are not available to the computer system in performing the identifying and the determining.