Corrupted Reference Image Quality Assessment of Denoised Images

We propose corrupted reference image quality assessment (CRIQA), a novel foundation for reasoning about image quality and image denoising problems jointly. In order to assess the visual quality of a processed image relative to an ideal reference image (not provided), we predict the full-reference image quality assessment (FRIQA) scores of denoised images without having the direct access to the ideal reference image, but with the help of the observed corrupted image, instead. Our simulation studies verify that the CRIQA scores of denoised images indeed agree with the corresponding FRIQA scores, and human subject studies confirm that CRIQA scores are more consistent with the perceived image denoising quality than the NRIQA scores. We demonstrated the usefulness of CRIQA with an application in denoising parameter tuning.