Image Signature Based Mean Square Error for Image Quality Assessment

Motivated by the importance of Human visual system (HVS) in image processing, we propose a novel Image signature based mean square error (ISMSE) metric for full reference Image quality assessment (IQA). Efficient image signature based describer is used to predict visual saliency map of the reference image. The saliency map is incorporated into luminance difference between the reference and distorted images to obtain image quality score. The effect of luminance difference on visual quality with larger saliency value which is usually corresponding to foreground objects is highlighted. Experimental results on LIVE database release 2 show that by integrating the effects of image signature based saliency on luminance difference, the proposed ISMSE metric outperforms several state-of-the-art HVS-based IQA metrics but with lower complexity.