Effects of rescaling bilinear interpolant on image interpolation quality

Olivier Rukundo; Samuel E. Schmidt

doi:10.1117/12.2501549

2 November 2018 Effects of rescaling bilinear interpolant on image interpolation quality

Olivier Rukundo, Samuel E. Schmidt

Proceedings Volume 10817, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology V; 1081715 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2501549
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2018, Beijing, China

Abstract

Rescaling bilinear (RB) interpolant’s pixels is a novel image interpolation scheme. In the current study, we investigate the effects on the quality of interpolated images. RB determines the lower and upper bounds using the standard deviation of the four nearest pixels to find the new interval or range that will be used to rescale the bilinear interpolant’s pixels. The products of the rescaled-pixels and corresponding distance-based-weights are added to estimate the new pixel value, to be assigned at the empty locations of the destination image. Effects of RB on image interpolation quality were investigated using standard full-reference and non-reference objective image quality metrics, particularly those focusing on interpolated images features and distortion similarities. Furthermore, variance and mean based metrics were also employed to further investigate the effects in terms of contrast and intensity increment or decrement. The Matlab based simulations demonstrated generally superior performances of RB compared to the traditional bilinear (TB) interpolation algorithm. The studied scheme’s major drawback was a higher processing time and tendency to rely on the image type and/or specific interpolation scaling ratio to achieve superior performances. Potential applications of rescaling based bilinear interpolation may also include ultrasound scan conversion in cardiac ultrasound, endoscopic ultrasound, etc.

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Olivier Rukundo and Samuel E. Schmidt "Effects of rescaling bilinear interpolant on image interpolation quality", Proc. SPIE 10817, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology V, 1081715 (2 November 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2501549

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