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A New Quality Metric based on FFT Transform

by Mohamed Ben Amor, Nouri Masmoudi Fahmi Kammoun
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 40 - Number 2
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Mohamed Ben Amor, Nouri Masmoudi Fahmi Kammoun
10.5120/4932-7165

Mohamed Ben Amor, Nouri Masmoudi Fahmi Kammoun . A New Quality Metric based on FFT Transform. International Journal of Computer Applications. 40, 2 ( February 2012), 41-46. DOI=10.5120/4932-7165

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author = { Mohamed Ben Amor, Nouri Masmoudi Fahmi Kammoun },
title = { A New Quality Metric based on FFT Transform },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2012 },
volume = { 40 },
number = { 2 },
month = { February },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 41-46 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume40/number2/4932-7165/ },
doi = { 10.5120/4932-7165 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

The study of the human visual system (HVS) is very interesting to quantify the quality of an image or to predict perceived information. The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) is one of the main ways to incorporate the HVS properties in an imaging system. It characterizes its sensitivity to spatial and temporal frequencies. In this paper we are interested in establishing a metric with full reference to the image and video. We realize in our algorithm, the FFT transformation to apply the CSF function. Our method is applicable to any size of image and video sequence by increasing its size at powers of two. This increase is achieved by adding "mirror image". The experimental results show that our method keeps better the different frequency components. She is more efficient than the method of "zero padding" and returns results very close to those of the DFT transformation.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

PSNR "Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio" CSF "contrast sensitivity function" HVS " human visual system " FFT " Fast Fourier Transform " zero padding