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Determination of
the cause and
amount of image
degradation using
a reduced
reference
approach
Author
Ankan
Bhattacharya
Sarbani Palit
Publication Abstract
Multimedia data transmission, particularly sending images, is an important feature of
modern communication systems. These activities usually occur on a very large scale and
hence, reduction of the data volume and storage requirements become crucial.
Reduction is achieved through compression, typically JPEG2000. Since this is a lossy
compression technique, the image quality is degraded, the extent depending on the
amount of compression. The transmission channel is another source of quality loss of
images. At the receiving end, the absence of a clean reference image makes the task of
quality assessment difcult. Since image quality assessment is required for different
applications, various reduced and no reference approaches have evolved to meet the
demand. The job of restoring the image quality is facilitated by the knowledge of the
exact source of degradation. There has been however, little work in this area. This article
proposes a reduced reference approach, which, starting with a received degraded
image, is able to distinguish between two different types of degradation Gaussian
noise (commonly arising from transmission channels) and compression due to
JPEG2000. The approach can, not only correctly determine the cause of the degradation
but also the amount of it, with only minimal information regarding the original image.
This is the most signicant contribution of this article. The performance of the proposed
approach is established through extensive simulations using images from well-known
databases.
Citat
ion
Bhattacharya and Palit, Determination of the Cause and Amount of Image Degradation Using a Reduced Reference Approach.
Eko Arianto / 360226