EE464 Senior Design Project - Web-based Image Quality Assessment

Digital still camera, desktop printers, and other imaging products distort images. Ideally, these products would be designed so that the visual image quality would be the best possible for a specific economic cost of the product.

At UT Austin, we have developed two automated methods for assessing image quality. We have implemented these methods in Matlab. The project would be to design and implement a Web-based interface to the image quality assessment framework. A user would connect to the Web site, give the URL for an original image and processed image, and the Web-based framework would return visual quality measures.

The potential impact of this senior design project would be to aid image processing algorithm developers in the optimization of the visual quality of products that use

1. JPEG image compression (Web pages, digital still image camera, desktop printers)
2. halftoning (desktop printers, monitors)

Related Courses: EE 313, EE 360C, and EE 371R

Resources:

• BlueJ Java development environment
• Brian L. Evans, "Software Development in the Unix Enviroment"
• David Geary, Graphic Java 2, vol. 1, 1998, ISBN 0130796662.
• David Geary, Graphic Java 2, vol. 2, 1999, ISBN 0130796670.
• David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, 1999, ISBN 1565924878.
• Ken Arnold and Gosling, The Java Programming Language, third edition, 2000, ISBN 0201704331.

References:

• Web-enabled simulation and debugging environment, http://signal.ece.ut exas.edu/~arifler/wetics/.
• Sample EE464 proposal for a client-server architecture " Proposal to Design a Simulator for the Texas Instruments TMS320C30 Digital Signa l Processor" by Dogu Arifler.

Contact: Prof. Brian L. Evans (bevans@ece.utexas.edu)