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Paper Abstract
This paper focuses on a machine learning approach for objective inpainting quality assessment. Inpainting has received a
lot of attention in recent years and quality assessment is an important task to evaluate different image reconstruction
approaches. Quantitative metrics for successful image inpainting currently do not exist; researchers instead are relying
upon qualitative human comparisons in order to evaluate their methodologies and techniques. We present an approach
for objective inpainting quality assessment based on natural image statistics and machine learning techniques. Our
method is based on observation that when images are properly normalized or transferred to a transform domain, local
descriptors can be modeled by some parametric distributions. The shapes of these distributions are different for noninpainted
and inpainted images. Approach permits to obtain a feature vector strongly correlated with a subjective image
perception by a human visual system. Next, we use a support vector regression learned on assessed by human images to
predict perceived quality of inpainted images. We demonstrate how our predicted quality value repeatably correlates
with a qualitative opinion in a human observer study.
Paper Details
Date Published: 22 May 2014
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9120, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2014, 91200S (22 May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2063664
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9120:
Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2014
Sos S. Agaian; Sabah A. Jassim; Eliza Yingzi Du, Editor(s)
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9120, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2014, 91200S (22 May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2063664
Show Author Affiliations
V. A. Frantc, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
V. V Voronin, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
V. I. Marchuk, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
V. V Voronin, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
V. I. Marchuk, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
A. I. Sherstobitov, Don State Technical Univ. (Russian Federation)
S. Agaian, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio (United States)
K. Egiazarian, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
S. Agaian, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio (United States)
K. Egiazarian, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9120:
Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2014
Sos S. Agaian; Sabah A. Jassim; Eliza Yingzi Du, Editor(s)
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