Error metric analysis and its applications

Qi Tian; Qing Xue; Nicu Sebe; Thomas S. Huang

doi:10.1117/12.571723

25 October 2004 Error metric analysis and its applications

Qi Tian, Qing Xue, Nicu Sebe, Thomas S. Huang

Proceedings Volume 5601, Internet Multimedia Management Systems V; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571723
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a general guideline to establish the relation of noise distribution model and its corresponding error metric. By designing error metrics, we obtain a much richer set of distance measures besides the conventional Euclidean distance or SSD (sum of the squared difference) and the Manhattan distance or SAD (sum of the absolute difference). The corresponding nonlinear estimations such as harmonic mean, geometric mean, as well as their generalized nonlinear operations are derived. It not only offers more flexibility than the conventional metrics but also discloses the coherent relation between the noise model and its corresponding error metric. We experiment with different error metrics for similarity noise estimation and compute the accuracy of different methods in three kinds of applications: content-based image retrieval from a large database, stereo matching, and motion tracking in video sequences. In all the experiments, robust results are obtained for noise estimation based on the proposed error metric analysis.

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Qi Tian, Qing Xue, Nicu Sebe, and Thomas S. Huang "Error metric analysis and its applications", Proc. SPIE 5601, Internet Multimedia Management Systems V, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571723

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