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A comprehensive performance evaluation of objective quality metrics for contrast enhancement techniques

  • Muhammad Ali Qureshi
  • , Azeddine Beghdadi
  • , Bilel Sdiri
  • , Mohamed Deriche
  • , Faouzi Alaya-Cheikh
  • King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  • Université Paris 13
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis and comparison of state-of-the-art Contrast Enhancement (CE) evaluation metrics. In this work, we developed a new database consisting of 182 images. The subjective experiments were performed to obtain a preference rating from different observers for the enhanced images using six CE methods selected from different representative categories. The quality of the enhanced images is measured with most commonly used CE evaluation metrics. We provide the ranking of images based on perceptual preference as well as objective quality metrics scores. We show that some of the metrics used for the enhancement evaluation are not consistent with the human subjective scores. This new database, named as Contrast Enhancement Evaluation Database (CEED2016), is made publicly available to the research community at http://wwwl2ti. univ-paris13.fr/site/index.php/en/CEED2016/ and is expected to be a contribution to the area of Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and particularly for image quality enhancement evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2016
EditorsL. Oudre, A. Beghdadi, S. Bourennane, A. Bouzerdoum, M. Pedersen, R. Jiang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509027811
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2016 - Marseille, France
Duration: 25 Oct 201627 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2016 6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2016

Conference

Conference6th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2016
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period25/10/1627/10/16

Keywords

  • contrast enhancement database
  • contrast enhancement evaluation metrics
  • image enhancement
  • image quality assessment
  • subjective experiments

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