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  • Saliency Guided Gradient Similarity for Fast Perceptual Blur Assessment

    Peipei ZHAO  Leida LI  Hao CAI  

     
    LETTER-Image Processing and Video Processing

      Pubricized:
    2015/05/18
      Vol:
    E98-D No:8
      Page(s):
    1613-1616

    Blur is one of the most common distortion type and greatly impacts image quality. Most existing no-reference (NR) image blur metrics produce scores without a fixed range, so it is hard to judge the extent of blur directly. This letter presents a NR perceptual blur metric using Saliency Guided Gradient Similarity (SGGS), which produces blur scores with a fixed range of (0,1). A blurred image is first reblurred using a Gaussian low-pass filter, producing a heavily blurred image. With this reblurred image as reference, a local blur map is generated by computing the gradient similarity. Finally, visual saliency is employed in the pooling to adapt to the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS). The proposed metric features fixed range, fast computation and better consistency with the HVS. Experiments demonstrate its advantages.