18 January 2022 No-reference image quality assessment for dehazed images
Bin Ji, Yunyun Ji, Han Gao, Xuedong Hu, Feng Ding
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Abstract

Traditional image quality prediction methods require the pristine image as a reference, such as structural similarity. However, it is difficult to provide a haze-free image as a reference when predicting the quality of the dehazed image. Therefore, it is necessary to use a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) method. In addition, most NR-IQA methods are based on known distortion type, using a large number of subjective opinion scores and images with the same distortion to train the model. We developed an innovative NR-IQA specifically for dehazed images without such prior knowledge. Since most images will undergo color distortion and blur after dehazing, it is proposed to combine color and sharpness for evaluation. The quality of the image is evaluated on the HSI color space, where the H and S channels are utilized to evaluate color, and the I channel to sharpness. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed metric is better than other existing evaluation methods for dehazed images.

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Bin Ji, Yunyun Ji, Han Gao, Xuedong Hu, and Feng Ding "No-reference image quality assessment for dehazed images," Journal of Electronic Imaging 31(1), 013013 (18 January 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.31.1.013013
Received: 6 September 2021; Accepted: 20 December 2021; Published: 18 January 2022
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KEYWORDS
Image quality

Image processing

Databases

Distortion

Air contamination

Data modeling

Feature extraction

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