Charting image artifacts in digital image sequences using velocital information content

Gregory J. Power; Mohammad A. Karim; Farid Ahmed

doi:10.1117/12.323220

1 October 1998 Charting image artifacts in digital image sequences using velocital information content

Gregory J. Power, Mohammad A. Karim, Farid Ahmed

Proceedings Volume 3460, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXI; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323220
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper introduces a metric called Velocital Information Content (VIC) which is used to chart quality variations in digital image sequences. Both spatially-based and temporally-based artifacts are charted using this single metric. VIC is based on the velocital information in each image. A mathematical formulation for VIC is shown along with its relation to the spatial and temporal information content. Some strengths and weaknesses of the VIC formulation are discussed. VIC is tested on some standard image sequences with various spatio-temporal attributes. VIC is also tested on a standard image sequence with various degrees of blurring using a linear blurring algorithm. Additionally, VIC is tested using standard sequences that have been processed through a digital transmission algorithm. The transmission algorithm is based on the discrete cosine transform, and thus introduces many of the known digital artifacts such as blocking. Finally, the ability of VIC to chart image artifacts is compared to a few other traditional quality metrics. VIC offers a different role from traditional transmission-based quality metrics which require two images: the original input image and degraded output image to calculate the quality metric. VIC can detect artifacts from a single image sequence by charting variations from the norm. Therefore, VIC offers a metric for judging the quality of the image frames prior to transmission, without a transmission system or without any knowledge of the higher quality image input. The differences between VIC and transmission-oriented quality metrics, can provide a different role for VIC in analysis and image sequence processing.

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Gregory J. Power, Mohammad A. Karim, and Farid Ahmed "Charting image artifacts in digital image sequences using velocital information content", Proc. SPIE 3460, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXI, (1 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323220

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