A no-reference 3D virtual reality image quality assessment algorithm based on saliency statistics

Ajay Kumar Reddy Poreddy; Peter A. Kara; Balasubramanyam Appina; Aniko Simon

doi:10.1117/12.2597327

1 August 2021 A no-reference 3D virtual reality image quality assessment algorithm based on saliency statistics

Ajay Kumar Reddy Poreddy, Peter A. Kara, Balasubramanyam Appina, Aniko Simon

Proceedings Volume 11841, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XV; 118410R (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2597327
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this work, we propose a supervised no-reference (NR) Image Quality Assessment (IQA) model for the objective evaluation of the perceptual quality of 3D virtual reality (VR) images. To achieve such practical algorithm, we first study the scene statistics of saliency maps of the individual left and right views of VR images, and empirically model these statistics with Univariate Generalized Gaussian Distribution (UGGD). We compute the UGGD model parameters at multi-scale and multi-orient steerable subband decomposition, and introduce these features as distortion discriminables. This is followed by the computation of the entropy and normalized root mean square scores of each subband and then these values are utilized as weights to pool the individual view features. We apply the popular 2D supervised BRISQUE model on the individual views to estimate the overall spatial quality of VR images. As the last step of the algorithm, the predicted saliency score and the spatial BRISQUE score are pooled to derive the final quality score of VR images. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated on the popular LIVE 3D VR IQA dataset. The results indicate robust and competitive performance against the off-the-shelf 2D full-reference and NR supervised algorithms.

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Ajay Kumar Reddy Poreddy, Peter A. Kara, Balasubramanyam Appina, and Aniko Simon "A no-reference 3D virtual reality image quality assessment algorithm based on saliency statistics", Proc. SPIE 11841, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XV, 118410R (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2597327

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