发明名称 Method for objectively evaluating quality of stereo image
摘要 A method for objectively evaluating quality of a stereo image is provided. The method obtains a cyclopean image of a stereo image formed in the human visual system by simulating a process that the human visual system deals with the stereo image. The cyclopean image includes three areas: an occlusion area, a binocular fusion area and a binocular suppression area. Representing characteristics of the image according to the singular value of the image has a strong stability. According characteristics of different areas of the human visual system while dealing with the cyclopean image, the distortion degree of the cyclopean image corresponding to the testing stereo image is presented by the singular value distance between cyclopean images respectively corresponding to the testing stereo image and the reference stereo image, in such a manner that an overall visual quality of the testing stereo image is finally evaluated.
申请公布号 US8953873(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.02.10
申请号 US201313775197 申请日期 2013.02.24
申请人 Ningbo University 发明人 Jiang Gangyi;Zhou Junming;Yu Mei;Li Fucui;Peng Zongju;Shao Feng
分类号 G06K9/00;G06T7/00 主分类号 G06K9/00
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A method for objectively evaluating quality of a stereo image comprising following steps of: {circle around (1)} defining an original stereo image which is utilized for referring in an objective quality evaluation of the stereo image as a reference stereo image, a left-view of the reference stereo image is denoted as Il, a right-view of the reference stereo image is denoted as Ir a cyclopean image of the reference stereo image formed in a human visual system is denoted as C; defining a distortion image of the reference stereo image which is used for testing in the objective quality evaluation of the stereo image as a testing stereo image, a left-view of the testing stereo image is denoted as Îl, a right-view of the testing stereo image is denoted as Îr, a cyclopean image of the testing stereo image formed in the human visual system is denoted as Ĉ, wherein sizes of the left-view of the reference stereo image Il, the right-view of the reference stereo image Ir, the left-view of the testing stereo image Îl, and the right-view of the testing stereo image Îr, are all denoted as W×H, wherein W refers to a width thereof, and H refers to a height thereof; {circle around (2)} classifying the cyclopean image Ĉ of the testing stereo image formed in the human visual system into three areas, wherein: a first area thereof is an occlusion area, which is denoted as {circumflex over (R)}occ, information of the occlusion area {circumflex over (R)}occ exists only in the left-view or the right-view of the testing stereo image; a second area thereof is a binocular suppression area, which is denoted as {circumflex over (R)}bs, information of the binocular suppression area {circumflex over (R)}bs is binocular information having great image content difference or great disparity between the left-view and the right-view of the testing stereo image; and a third area thereof is a binocular fusion area, which is denoted as {circumflex over (R)}bf, information of the binocular fusion area {circumflex over (R)}bf is binocular information having similar image content and small disparity between the left-view and the right-view of the testing stereo image; {circle around (3)} dividing the cyclopean image Ĉ of the testing stereo image formed in the human visual system into a plurality of image blocks which are non-overlapped with each other and have a size of k×k, classifying all of the image blocks into three types: an occlusion block, a binocular suppression block and a binocular fusion block, updating {circumflex over (R)}occ, {circumflex over (R)}bs and {circumflex over (R)}bf according to types of the image blocks, so as to obtain an updated occlusion area {circumflex over (R)}occ′, an updated binocular suppression area {circumflex over (R)}bs′ and an updated binocular fusion area {circumflex over (R)}bf′, in the cyclopean image C of the reference stereo image formed in the human visual system, obtaining an area Rocc′ corresponding to a position of {circumflex over (R)}occ′, an area Rbs′ corresponding to a position of {circumflex over (R)}bs′, and an area Rbf′ corresponding to a position of {circumflex over (R)}bf′, processing singular value decomposition respectively on all of the image blocks having a size of k×k in the area {circumflex over (R)}occ′, an area Rbsl′ corresponding to left-view of {circumflex over (R)}bs′, an area {circumflex over (R)}bsr′ corresponding to right-view of {circumflex over (R)}bs′, an area {circumflex over (R)}bfl′ corresponding to left-view of {circumflex over (R)}bf′, an area {circumflex over (R)}bfr′ corresponding to right-view of {circumflex over (R)}bf′, the area Rocc′, an area Rbsl′ corresponding to left-view of Rbs′, an area Rbsr′ corresponding to right-view of Rbs′, an area Rbfl′ corresponding to left-view of Rbf′, and an area Rbfr′ corresponding to right-view of Rbf′, in such a manner that singular values respectively corresponding to each image block are obtained, wherein k>1; {circle around (4)} obtaining an overall distortion degree Qocc of {circumflex over (R)}occ′ according to singular value distances between all of the image blocks which are in corresponding positions in {circumflex over (R)}occ′ and {circumflex over (R)}occ′ and have a size of k×k, obtaining an overall distortion degree Qbs of {circumflex over (R)}bs′ according to singular value distances between all of the image blocks which are in corresponding positions in {circumflex over (R)}bsl′ and Rb,sl′ and have a size of k×k, and singular value distances between all of the image blocks which are in corresponding positions in {circumflex over (R)}bsr′ and Rbsr′ and have a size of k×k, and obtaining an overall distortion degree Qbf of {circumflex over (R)}bf′ according to singular value distances between all of the image blocks which are in corresponding positions in {circumflex over (R)}bfl′ and Rbfl′ and have a size of k×k, and singular value distances between all of the image blocks which are in corresponding positions of {circumflex over (R)}bfr′ and Rbfr′ and have a size of k×k; and {circle around (5)} according to the overall distortion degree Qocc of {circumflex over (R)}occ′, the overall distortion degree Qbs of {circumflex over (R)}bs′ and the overall distortion degree Qbf of {circumflex over (R)}bf′, calculating an overall distortion degree Q of the testing stereo image by an equation of linear regression, wherein Q=a×Qocc+b×Qbs+c×Qbf, wherein a, b and c are all coefficients and satisfy: {a+b+c=10≤a≤10≤b≤10≤c≤1.
地址 Ningbo, Zhejiang Province CN