Open AccessBlind Quality Index for Tone-mapped HDR Images and Multi-Exposure Fused Images
Author(s) -
Jingli Fang,
Mingxing Jiang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1871/1/012047
Subject(s) - high dynamic range , artificial intelligence , computer science , tone mapping , computer vision , image quality , feature (linguistics) , pattern recognition (psychology) , range (aeronautics) , quality (philosophy) , dynamic range , fusion , visualization , image (mathematics) , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , aerospace engineering
Tone mapping operators (TMOs) and multi-exposure fusion algorithms (MEFs) are employed to visualize the informative contents of high dynamic range (HDR) images on the standard dynamic range (SDR) devices, but also lead to visual quality degradation. Thus, it is urgent to evaluate the perceptual quality of tone-mapped images (TMIs) and multi-exposure fusion images (MEFIs). This paper proposes a blind quality index for TMIs/MEFIs by capturing exposure, colorfulness and structure characteristic features. The connection between feature space and associated subjective ratings is established via a regression model. The proposed method is tested on the public database and compared to the state-of-the-art blind image quality assessment (IQA) methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves superior performance.