Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2022, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 250-260.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.2276

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Just-noticeable distortion model based on colour complexity and structure tensor

WANG Chuang, WANG Yongfang(), LIAN Junjie   

  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2020-05-21 Online:2022-04-30 Published:2022-04-28
  • Contact: WANG Yongfang E-mail:yfw@shu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The just noticeable distortion (JND) threshold refers to the minimum distortion at which eyes can perceive. JND can be used to remove visual redundancy derived from image or video compression. Considering that JND models do not make full use of colour features and structural information, this study proposes a JND model based on colour complexity and structure tensor. First, the colour complexity is estimated and it is used to calculate the visual weight values related to the sensitivity of human eyes. Then the estimated colour complexity is combined with the contrasting masking effect to improve the accuracy of the model. Next, utilising the local structure tensor to represent local features, the modulation factor is established to calculate the visual redundancy of irregular regions. Finally, the colour complexity structure tensor based JND (CSJND) model is estimated by combining the colour-complexity-based JND model and structure tensor modulation factor. Experimental results show that the proposed CSJND model can acquire a noticeably lower peak-signal-to-noise ratio as compared with some existing JND models while also achieving the same subjective perceptual quality. This is more consistent with human visual perception. The proposed CSJND model can also calculate the JND thresholds more accurately.

Key words: just noticeable distortion (JND) model, colour complexity, structure tensor

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