Besma Sadou¹, Atidel Lahoulou^2*, Toufik Bouden¹, Anderson R. Avila³, Tiago H. Falk³, Zahid Akhtar⁴, ¹University of Jijel, Algeria, ²LAOTI laboratory, University of Jijel, Algeria, ³University of Québec, Canada and ⁴University of Memphis, USA

In this paper, a new no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) metric for grey images is proposed using LIVE II image database. The features used are extracted from three well-known NR-IQA objective metrics based on natural scene statistical attributes from three different domains. These metrics may contain redundant, noisy or less informative features which affect the quality score prediction. In order to overcome this drawback, the first step of our work consists in selecting the most relevant image quality features by using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based dominant eigenvectors. The second step is performed by employing Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) to learn the mapping between the previously selected features and human opinion scores. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed metric performs very well in terms of correlation and monotonicity.

Natural Scene Statistics (NSS), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), dominant eigenvectors, Relevance Vector Machine (RVM).