Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 10-13, 2000, vol. III, pp. 981-984, Vancouver, Canada.

Blind Measurement of Blocking Artifacts in Images

Zhou Wang, Alan C. Bovik, and Brian L. Evans

Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1084 USA
bovik@ece.utexas.edu - bevans@ece.utexas.edu

Paper - Poster

Abstract

The objective measurement of blocking artifacts plays an important role in the design, optimization, and assessment of image and video coding systems. We propose a new approach that can blindly measure blocking artifacts in images without reference to the originals. The key idea is to model the blocky image as a non-blocky image interfered with a pure blocky signal. The task of the blocking effect measurement algorithm is then to detect and evaluate the power of the blocky signal. The proposed approach has the flexibility to integrate human visual system features such as the luminance and the texture masking effects.

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