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1 Master Thesis Electrical Engineering Implementation of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment in Contourlet Domain UDAY CHAITANYA DORNADULA PRIYANKA DEVUNURI This thesis is presented as part of Degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Signal Processing Blekinge Institute of Technology November 2013 Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering Supervisor: Muhammad Shahid Examiner: Dr. Benny Lövström i

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3 ABSTRACT In image processing, efficiency term refers to the ability in capturing significant information that is sensitive to human visual system with small description. Natural images or scenes that contain intrinsic geometrical structures (contours) are key features of visual information. The existing transform methods like Fourier transformation, wavelets, curvelets, ridgelets etc., have limitations in capturing directional information in an image and their compatibility with compression methods. Hence, to capture the directional information or natural scene statistics of an image and to handle the compatibility over distortion methods, Contourlet Transform (CT) can be a promising approach. The goal of no-reference image quality assessment using contourlet transform (NR IQACT) is to establish a rational computational model to predict the visual quality of an image. In this thesis we implemented an improved Natural Scene Statistics (NSS) model that blindly measures image quality using the concept of Contourlet Transform (CT). In fact, natural scenes contain nonlinear dependencies that can be disturbed by a compression process. This disturbance can be quantified and related to human perception of quality. Key Words: Image Quality, Contourlets, NR IQACT, CT, NSS, Directional Information, Intrinsic Geometrical Structures.

4 We would like to dedicate this work to Almighty and to our parents

5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank our Examiner Dr Benny L vstr m and our Supervisor Mr Muhammad Shahid for giving this opportunity to be part of this research and for providing valuable support throughout our work. We would like to appreciate our friend Mr Sridhar Bitra for his support in our thesis. We would like to convey our deepest gratitude for our family members. They provided very much comfort and encouragement that helped us to reach here. Uday Chaitanya Dornadula, Priyanka Devunuri. Karlskrona, November 2013

6 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... v TABLE OF CONTENTS... vi LIST OF FIGURES... viii CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION Literature Survey Problem Statement Research Question Thesis Outline... 4 CHAPTER 2 - BACKGROUND CT Construction using Filter Banks Laplacian Pyramid (LP) A. Construction of LP: Iterated Directional Filter Banks A. Multirate Identities: B. Quincunx Filter Bank (QFB): C.New Construction of DFB, proposed by Minh N. Do and Martin Vetterli: Contourlet Coefficients Structure and definitions of relationship among Contourlet coefficients Statistics of Contourlet Coefficients A. Marginal Statistics: B. Joint Statistical Distribution C. Mutual Information among coefficients CHAPTER 3 IMPLEMENTATION Implementation model of NR IQACT Image data set and its explanation NR-IQACT system model Contourlet Transform Contourlet coefficients Statistics of contourlet coefficients in distorted natural images Image-dependent threshold Training methodology Testing method and algorithm to calibrate image quality Subjective image quality assessment... 34

7 3.7. Image quality assessment using SSIM Evaluation of Test Results Pearson s Correlation Coefficient CHAPTER 4 RESULTS No Reference Image Quality Assessment using Contourlet Transform (NR-IQACT) CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK Conclusion Future Work APENDIX A BIBLIOGRAPHY... 55

8 LIST OF FIGURES 2.1 Image decomposition using CT The effect of Frequency Scrambling in 1-D case Generation of outputs in between Wavelet and Laplacian filter banks at multi-dimensional case The first level of image decomposition using Laplacian Pyramid A new optimal linear reconstruction of LP for synthesis Graphical representation of Pythagorean Theorem The New Construction scheme for LP Implementation of tree decomposition at levels using wedge shaped frequency partitioning Two-dimensional spectrum partition using quincunx filter banks with fan filters Example of shearing operation that is used like a rotation operation for DFB decomposition Multi-dimensional multirate identity for interchange of downsampling and filtering Two possible support configurations for the filters in the QFB. Each region represents the ideal frequency support of a filter in the pair First and second level of the DFB Support configuration of the equivalent filters in the first two levels of the DFB QFBs with resampling operations that are used in the DFB starting from the third level Left: The analysis side of the two resampled QFB s that are used from the third level in the first half channels of the DFB. Right: The equivalent filter banks using parallelogram filters. The black regions represent the ideal frequency supports of the filters Impulse responses of 32 equivalent filters for the first half of channels in 6-levels DFB that use the Haar filters Contourlet Transform of Barbara Image. This image was decomposed into three levels and eight directional subbands (a) Contourlet coefficients with their relationships. (b) Wavelet coefficients relationships Histograms of the Barbara Image contourlet coefficients. Histograms (a) to (c) processed from first level; (d) to (f) from second level and (g) to (i) from third level Joint scatter graphs conditioned on parent, cousins and neighbours.. 25

9 3.1 System model for NR-IQA in contourlet domain Joint histograms of(, ) for different distorted images [1]. (a). Natural (b). JPEG (a) The subband serial number used in subband enumeration of (b) (b) ( ( )) Versus subband enumeration index Shows the Contourlet coefficients subbands at 4 different levels Shows Joint histograms of (, ) at level 1 for 2 subbands Joint histograms of (, ) at level 2 for 4 subbands Graphical representation of subjective and objective scores for the videos considered Validation of the results using neural network toolbox ( ( )) versus subband enumeration index falls off with decrease of scale from original image to least distorted image with respect to subjective value Partition of Significant, Insignificant portions in P and C space Shows first set of building images that were taken for testing. First one is Original image and their respective distorted images Shows NR-IQAT, subjective values and SSIM metric for the images in Fig 4.8. X-axis indicates 8 images and Y-label indicates quality in scale of 0 to Shows second set of flowersonih35 images that were taken for testing. First one is Original image and their respective distorted images Shows NR-IQAT, subjective values and SSIM metric for the images in Fig X-axis indicates 8 images and Y-label indicates quality in scale of 0 to Shows Metric assessments, Pearson correlation coefficient between objective value and its corresponding subjective values and Pearson correlation coefficient between objective value and SSIM obtained for all 10 image sets... 41

10 LIST OF TABLES Table4.1 Table4.2 Shows correlation coefficient of 7 different set of images that were taken for testing.. 43 Shows results of K, U, and T fitting parameter obtained after using MATLAB command fminsearch for 8 subbands these subbands are average of 24 images taken for training that can be trained from the training set. The 8 subbands taken are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 this numbering is as per fig 3.4 (a) 43

11 NOMENCLATURE LIST CT NR IQACT NR IQA NR RR FR NSS PSNR JND SSIM IFC VIF PDFB LP DFB QFB PC GC NC CC Contourlet Transform No Reference Image Quality Assessment Using Contourlet Transform No Reference Image Quality Assessment No Reference Reduced Reference Full Reference Natural Scene Statistics Peak Signal to Noise Ratio Just Noticeable Difference Structural Similarity Information Fidelity Criterion Visual Information Fidelity Pyramidal Directional Filter Bank Laplacian Pyramid Directional Filter Bank Quincunx Filter Bank Parent Coefficient Grandparent Coefficient Neighbour Coefficient Cousin Coefficient

12 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION In most of the applications, the visual information in an image is finally received by human beings and it is intuitively reasonable to score the image quality subjectively (by humans) [2, 3]. But, in real scenarios subjective image quality assessment (IQA) is expensive and in most of the real time applications implement the alternative option called objective IQA. But, there are numerous Objective IQA techniques in image processing that can be classified in many ways. For example, data metrics namely PSNR and MSE uses fidelity of the signal and ignores the visual content. But, on other side picture metrics consider visual information in the signal [6]. In addition to these two types of metrics, there are objective metrics that consider reference information in calculating the image quality. These metrics can be one of the full- reference (FR) [4], no-reference (NR) [5] and reduced reference (RR) methods. In our thesis we did no-reference image quality assessment using contourlet transform (NR IQACT) based on natural scene statistics (NSS). For one-dimensional piecewise smooth signals, like scan-lines of an image, wavelets have been established as the right tool, because they provide an optimal representation for these signals in a certain sense. But, natural images are not simply stacks of 1-D piecewise smooth scan-lines. Because natural images are made of discontinuity points (i.e. edges) that are typically located along smooth curves (i.e. contours) owing to smooth boundaries of physical objects. Thus, natural images contain intrinsic geometrical structures that are key features in visual information [1]. With reference to the studies related to the human visual system, natural image statistics and existing transformation methods; CT has higher degree of directionality (basis elements are oriented in variety of directions) and anisotropy (smooth contours in image representation) [1, 3]. In comparison with wavelet, CT (improvement of wavelet in terms of efficiency) does addition of directionality and anisotropy to wavelets properties namely multi-scale and time-frequency-localization Literature Survey Over the years, many researches contributed different mathematical models and different approaches to analyse the images and to assess the quality of the same. Among those, we found no reference image quality assessment using contourlet transform (NR IQACT) as a latest and sensible approach to analyse the image and to assess the image quality. Here, we mention the different views of different researchers regarding image quality assessment (IQA) and mathematical models in analysing images. 1

13 In [7], authors proposed an approach to the QA problem as an information fidelity problem. In their words, a source of natural image and its receiver communicate with each other through a channel that has limitations on amount of information that could flow from the source (the reference image) to the receiver (the human observer). Using signal source and distortion or channel models they explained, mutual information can be quantified (as IFC) between reference and test images. This quantified information or IFC can be used to quantify perceptual quality. In their work, they modelled source and channel in wavelet domain. This work helped us in understanding the significance of mutual information between sub-bands in performing image quality assessment. In our thesis, we used the concept of mutual information in finding coefficient s neighbours distribution over sub-bands in terms of scale, space and direction. In [8], authors implemented a reduced reference model to find the quality of an image. They used an image called quality-aware image i.e., in an original image certain features were extracted and embedded as invisible hidden messages into an image data. When the distorted version of quality aware image is given as input to the proposed algorithm, the algorithm decodes and maps to corresponding hidden message and provides objective score of the distorted image. From this work, we learned the importance of features in an original image and one type of its usage in performing IQA using reduced reference model. In [9], a performance evaluation study of ten image quality assessment algorithms conveys that there is very much difference between machine and human evaluation of image quality. Among the ten algorithms that authors undertook in [24], DCTune (A technique for visual optimization of DCT quantization matrices for individual images) performs statistically worse than peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), and just noticeable difference (JND),structural similarity(ssim), information fidelity criterion (IFC), and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) perform much better than the rest of the algorithms. They found, VIF as best in the considered 10 algorithm set. This work helped us in understanding different algorithms in the area of signal processing to perform image quality assessment. Among different objective metrics, as it is desirable to have perceptually relevant objective metrics, we used Similarity Index (SSIM) to validate our results. In [2], Minh N. Do and Martin Vetterli proposed a two-dimensional transform called contourlet transform (CT) that can capture the intrinsic geometrical structure that is key in visual information. They realized this concept with a discrete-domain multi-resolution and multi-direction expansion using non-separable filter banks. They claimed that, with parabolic scaling and sufficient directional vanishing moments, contourlets can achieve the optimal approximation rate for piecewise smooth functions with discontinuities along twice continuously differentiable curves. This work helped us in understanding the concept (construction) of contourlet transform. In our thesis, we used the concept of contourlets proposed in this work to decompose an image. 2

14 In [5], authors proposed a model that uses NSS to blindly measure the quality of an image that was compressed using standard JPEG2000. They observed, natural scenes are nonlinearly dependant and they were disturbed by compression process that can be quantified. In addition, they claim that a rational relationship exists between this quantification of disturbance and human perceptions of quality. From this work we learned the concept of wavelets in performing no-reference image quality assessment and it helped us in analysing the process of IQA using contourlet transform. In [1], authors presented a model to perform no reference image quality assessment by capturing the image structural information. They used the concept of contourlet transform to decompose an image into multiscale and multidirectional subbands that consists of nonlinear dependencies. Then they captured these nonlinear dependencies using joint histograms of the reference and estimated contourlet coefficients. An image dependent threshold is employed to eliminate the influence of content. Finally, objective quality was calculated by the nonlinear combination of the extracted features. In our thesis, we studied and analysed CT and implemented the model that was proposed in [1]. Thereafter we tested our algorithm with a new database of images and verified the results using SSIM. Then we evaluated the results using Pearson s Correlation coefficient. The advantage of our thesis in comparison to the similar work that proposed in [5] is that NR IQACT can be used across different compression techniques Problem Statement The primary goal of our thesis is to perform No-Reference Image Quality Assessment using Contourlet Transform (NR IQACT). Using nonlinear and structured transforms an image representation will become efficient. CT can build fast algorithms that can represent piecewise smooth signals or functions that resemble images. In addition, CT can incorporate the wish list [1, 10] of an image representation namely; multiresolution, localization, critical sampling, directionality and anisotropy.nr IQACT is its inexpensiveness when compared to FR and RR reference image quality assessments. Sheikh et al. [5] presented a NR IQA metric that uses NSS for JPEG2000 compressed images. This existing state-of-art approach develops NSS model to NR IQA [1]. The mentioned NSS model is based on the concept that natural images exhibit certain common characteristics which can be represented by a mathematical model. In our thesis, the implement NR IQACT can be used across different image compression techniques and not restricted to JPEG2000 that was presented in [5]. 3

15 1.3. Research Question How to perform No-Reference Image Quality Assessment using Contourlet Transform (NR IQACT) using Natural Scene Statistics (NSS) of an image and how does it perform compared to other existing methods? 1.4. Thesis Outline Our thesis is organised as follows. In Chapter 2, we focus on the background of our thesis, CT. We discuss the construction of Pyramidal Directional Filter Bank (PDFB) or CT using Laplacian Pyramid (LP) and Directional Filter Bank (DFB). In the construction of LP, we first describe LP that was introduced by Burt and Adelson [11] which has the limitation of frame bounds. Later we present a modified construction of LP [2] that overcomes the limitation of frame bounds. In the construction of DFB, we discuss the two dimensional DFB proposed by Bamberger and Smith [11] and its extended version introduced by Do and Vetterli [10] that provides orthogonal bases. Then we present the contourlet coefficients, its statistical properties and relationships among them. In Chapter 3, we discuss the implementation of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) using contourlet coefficients. This chapter states the approach i.e. system model that summarizes the process of image decomposition using contourlet coefficients and finding no reference image quality. By using the statistical properties of these coefficients, we develop a joint histogram in which employment of image dependent threshold will happen. Using this image dependent threshold and offset parameters, significant information that is needed in finding quality of an image could be determined. Then, we state the implementation aspects and simulation details in which a step-by-step algorithm of finding image quality as mentioned above is added. In Chapter 4, we present and discuss the obtained results. Finally in Chapter 5, we conclude our thesis with recommendations to extend this research. 4

16 CHAPTER 2 - BACKGROUND Before going to implement contourlet transform to decompose an image, we present here the theoretical concepts of the contourlet transform (CT). This chapter gives the overview of the CT construction using filter banks and the statistics of contourlet coefficients. CT was proposed by Minh N. Do and Martin Vetterli [1]. CT is as an improvement over wavelets in terms of the efficiency in presenting multi-scale, local and directional contour segments which are sensitive to human eyes. The primary objective of the CT was to obtain a sparse expansion for typical images that are piecewise smooth functions or contours CT Construction using Filter Banks CT employs a double filter bank structure in which at first the Laplacian pyramid (LP) is used to capture the point discontinuities, and then a directional filter bank (DFB) is used to link these point discontinuities (which are correlated to each other in terms of coefficients magnitude) into linear structures. Figure 2.1shows the process of decomposition that happens in the double filter bank structure Laplacian Pyramid (LP) Laplacian pyramid (LP) was introduced by Burt and Adelson [11]. The LP decomposition at each level generates a down-sampled low pass version of the original and the difference between the original and the prediction, resulting as a band pass image. The reason behind opting LP instead of wavelet filter bank is: To avoid frequency scrambling that happens when a high pass channel is folded back into low frequency band after down sampling. This drawback was resolved in band pass signals of LP by just down sampling low pass channel [2, 12].Figure 2.2 illustrates frequency scrambling in 1-D case. In converse to wavelet filter bank, LP generates only one isometric detailed signal at each level in any dimensions as shown in Figure 2.3 [2, 12]. 5

17 Figure 2.1: Image decomposition using CT [1, 2]. If we look at the drawbacks of LP, we can find the following facts: In the presence of noise i.e. noise from high pass sub-bands in a multi-dimensional LP, it appears as a broadband noise in the reconstructed signal instead of remaining in these sub bands [12]. Another drawback of LP is implicit over sampling [2]. After one step in the LP, the coarse signal c (n) will become times the size of the input and a difference or band-pass signal will have the same size as the input [15]. When the scheme is iterated, redundancy ratio will become as follows: ( ) Here, M is sampling and integer matrix. 6

18 As our work concerned to analysis part, we have not faced these drawbacks in our thesis. But, using a modified version of usual LP that was proposed in [10], we can exclude these drawbacks. Figure 2.2: The effect of Frequency Scrambling in 1-D case [15]. Upper: Spectrum after high-pass filtering. Lower: Spectrum after down sampling. The filled regions indicate that the high frequency is folded back into the low frequency. Figure 2.3: Generation of outputs in between Wavelet and Laplacian filter banks at multi-dimensional case [10, 11]. 7

19 A. Construction of LP: LP uses the concept of oversampled filter banks and theory of frames [13]. In this section, we first explain LP that was introduced by Burt and Adelson [11]. Later we present a new or modified construction of LP that was proposed by Minh. N. Do and Martin Vetterli [2] that overcomes the limitation of frame bounds. In Figure 2.4, H and G are called (low pass) analysis and synthesis filters respectively that were orthogonal to each other (i.e., the analysis (H) and synthesis (G) filters are time reversal, h[n] = g [ n] with respect to sampling matrix M) [2]. Figure 2.4: The first level of image decomposition using Laplacian Pyramid. The outputs are a coarse approximation c[n] and a difference or band-pass d[n] between the original signal and the prediction [2]. The filtering and coarse approximation of LP yields filtered coarse approximation of the signal c (n). The approximation signal c (n) from Figure 2.4 is given by [13], ( ) Where, due to orthogonal filters H and G, we denote By performing up-sampling and filtering operation on results prediction signal given by, 8

20 ( ) Writing the above signals in matrix form gives, and, where, H and G matrices correspond to down sampling and up sampling processes respectively. Using these matrix notations, the difference or residual signal of the LP can be written as ( ) (2.4) From previous relations, we can write the analysis operator of the LP as follows: ( ) ( ) (2.5) Now, let us denote these matrices as, ( ) ( ) ( ) The inverse transform of the LP [refer to Figure 2.5] can be re-written as below, ( ) It can be written as, And let s say, ( ) ( ) ( ( )) ( ) ( ) 9

21 Therefore, we can conclude that that is perfect reconstruction for any H and G. Here, we have to note that due to orthogonal filters H and G, tight frame will occur when frame bounds are equal to 1. In this case, in [2], authors Minh. N. Do and Martin Vetterli proposed the use of the optimal linear reconstruction of LP using the dual frame operator (or pseudo-inverse) as shown in Figure 2.5. Figure 2.5: Usual reconstruction of LP for synthesis [2]. In Figure 2.5, the signal is obtained by simply adding back the difference to the prediction from the coarse signal which is an improved model over the usual reconstruction in the presence of noise i.e., [2, 10]. As mentioned before, LP uses theory of frames or frame operator with redundancy. So, it admits infinite number of left inverses. Consider S as an arbitrary left inverse of A. So, in a noisy environment equation 2.7(a) can be written as, ( ) ( ) As mentioned before, LP s frame operator admits an infinite number of left inverses due to the property of redundancy. Among those infinite left inverses, the most important is the dual frame operator or the pseudo inverse or optimal left inverse (minimizing ) of matrix A i.e. 10

22 ( ) ( ) But, reconstruction using pseudo inverse without tight frame is computationally expensive or difficult. In LP, the orthogonal filters H and G exhibits; ( ) ( ) In geometrical interpretation the prediction signal, ( ) From equation (2.2), we can write ( ) Appling Pythagorean theorem to above triangle in Figure 2.6, ( ) Here, condition (frame bounds) comes from the fact that c represents the coefficients in the orthogonal expansion of p. As a result, pseudo-inverse of A is simply its transpose. ( ) ( ) ( ) 11

23 Figure 2.6: Graphical representation of Pythagorean Theorem [10]. Therefore, the optimal reconstruction is, ( ) ( ) ( ) This optimal reconstruction stated in equation 2.17 can be realized as shown in below Figure 2.7. c d H M M G p x H G Figure 2.7: The new reconstruction scheme for the LP [13, 14] Iterated Directional Filter Banks In CT construction, LP was used before the DFB because DFB s are designed to capture high frequency (deals with directionality) information of the given image. So, low frequency content will 12

24 be neglected or poorly treated. Therefore, it is sensible way in incorporating LP prior to DFB to remove the low frequency content. In 1992, a 2-D DFB was constructed by Bamberger and Smith. In their construction, they used quincunx filter banks (to modulate the image) with diamond-shaped filters [14]. They implemented it using level binary tree decomposition that leads to sub-bands with wedge-shaped frequency partitioning as shown in Figure 2.8. Minh N. Do and Martin Vetterli [10] proposed a new construction that avoids image modulation with a simple rule for expanding the decomposition tree. This new DFB was constructed in two building blocks namely, two-channel quincunx filter bank and a shearing operator. The two channel quincunx filter bank with fan filters divides the spectrum into horizontal and vertical directions (see Figure 2.9).The second building block, shearing operator reorders the image samples (see Figure 2.10) [2]. Figure 2.8: Implementation of tree decomposition at partitioning [10]. levels using wedge shaped frequency In Figure 2.8, centred Figure conveys, frequency partitioning at level and its corresponding real wedge-shaped frequency bands. Subbands 0 3 correspond to the mostly horizontal directions, while subbands 4 7 correspond to the mostly vertical directions. The left end figure is zone plate image and the right end is the zone plate image that was decomposed by a DFB with 4 levels that leads to 16 subbands. In Figure 2.10, we can observe the application of shearing operator that reorders the image edge having 45 0 directions to a vertical direction. Hence, incorporation of shearing operator and its inverse (un-shearing) before and after (in respective order) to the 2-D filter bank in Figure 2.8, we can obtain directional frequency partition by maintaining perfect reconstruction [2, 10]. 13

25 Figure 2.9: Two-dimensional spectrum partition using quincunx filter banks with fan filters. The black regions represent the ideal frequency supports of each filter. Q is a quincunx sampling matrix [2]. (a) (b) Figure 2.10: Example of shearing operation that is used like a rotation operation for DFB decomposition. (a) The Cameraman image. (b) The Cameraman image after a shearing operation [2] A. Multirate Identities: For the interchange of filtering and sampling, multirate identities can be used [10, 16]. Consider the given sample was down sampled by M and it was filtered by a filter ( ). This sample is equivalent to the sample that was filtered by using filter ( ) and up-sampled by using ( ) with order M, before down-sampling. We can observe this concept in Figure

26 M ( ) ( ) M Figure 2.11: Multi-dimensional multirate identity for interchange of down-sampling and filtering [10]. Proposition 2.1: ( ) ( ) if and only if ; where E is a unimodular integer matrix [10]. To fulfil the rotation operations, four basic unimodular matrices are used in the DFB. They are: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Here, we need to note that, where denotes identity matrix. From this observation we can say that, for example, upsampling by is equivalent to the downsampling by B. Quincunx Filter Bank (QFB): The QFB can be used to split the frequency spectrum of the input signal into a lowpass and a highpass channel using a diamond-shaped filter pair, or into a horizontal and a vertical channel using a fan filter pair [2, 10]. Frequency characteristics of these filters are shown in Figure Note that we can obtain one filter pair from the other by simply modulating the filters by in either thefrequency variable or C. New Construction of DFB, proposed by Minh N. Do and Martin Vetterli: In new construction, DFB is based only on the Quincunx Filter Bank s (QFB) with fan filters. This new construction method avoids the modulation of the input image and has a simpler rule for expanding the decomposition tree. Due to this reason, synthesis is exactly same as analysis; M. N. Do 15

27 ( ) ( ) ( ) (a) ( ) (b) Figure 2.12: Two possible support configurations for the filters in the QFB. Each region represents the ideal frequency support of a filter in the pair. (a) Diamond shaped filter pair. (b) Fan filters pair [10]. and M.Vetterli focused only on the analysis side. Intuitively, the wedge-shaped frequency partition of the DFB is realized by an appropriate combination of directional frequency splitting by the fan QFB s and the rotation operations done by resampling [2, 10]. In their construction, to obtain a four directional frequency partitioning, the first two levels are explained in Figure 2.13 and the sampling matrices in the first and second level are Q 0 and Q 1, respectively. Hence, the overall sampling after two levels is, or downsampling by two in each dimension. Referring to the concept of multirate identity, it is acceptable to interchange the filters at the second level with the sampling matrix. Because of this interchange, a fan filter will transform into an equivalent filter with quadrant frequency response. In Figure 2.14, we can observe the results of all these combinations. To achieve finer frequency partition from third level, authors used quincunx filter banks together with resampling operations as shown in Figure There are four types of resampled QFB s, corresponding to the four resampling matrices in proposition 2.1. Resampled QFB s of type 0 and 1 are used in the first half of DFB channels that generates subbands in horizontal directions or directions in between +45 and 45. Resampled QFB s of type 2 and 3 are used in second half of DFB channels that generates subbands in remaining directions. 16

28 Q 1 0 Q 0 Q 1 1 Q 1 2 Q 0 Q 1 3 Figure 2.13: First and second level of the DFB. At each level, QFB s with fan filters are used. The black regions represent the ideal frequency supports of the filters [10]. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (a) (b) (c) Figure 2.14: Support configuration of the equivalent filters in the first two levels of the DFB. (a) First level: fan filters. (b) Second level: quadrant filters. (c) Combining the supports of the two levels. The equivalent filters corresponding to those four directions are denoted by, i = 0, 1, 2, 3 [10]. 17

29 From the third level of DFB, authors constructed the second half of the DFB channels by simply swapping the two dimensions, n 0 and n 1 from the corresponding channels in the first half. Here swapping includes both the sampling matrices (for example R 0 becomes R 2, Q 0 becomes Q 1 ) and the filters in the QFB s. R i R i Figure 2.15: QFBs with resampling operations that are used in the DFB starting from the third level [10]. Therefore, from the above discussion, we can conclude that we can only focus on first half of the DFB channels! In Figure 2.15, we can see on the left side that the two resampled QFB s of the analysis that were used from the third level in the first half channels of the DFB and on the right side the equivalent FBs using parallelogram filters. Here, we have to notice the order of frequency supports of the fan filters in each QFB. In the iterated DFB, the upper channel at each node from third level in the first half is expanded using the type 0 filter bank while the lower channel is expanded using the type 1 filter bank [10]. We can also observe that the concept of multirate identity in Figure 2.15 was applied in the Figure From these figures we can state the equation or mathematical relation as follows [10]: ( ) ( ), (2.17) This equation is followed by the process of downsampling, given by:, for { } (2.18) Here, the filters ( ) were obtained by the process of resampling the fan filters, ( ) and called by the name parallelogram filters. To simplify the sampling matrices for the resampled QFB s, we use Smith form of quincunx matrices as shown in [10], i.e. (2.19) 18

30 . (2.20) Using the proposition that states, the LP with stable filters (stability filters produces bounded output for given bounded input) provide a frame expansion in ( ) [10] i.e. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) So, from the above equation we can say that the sampling lattices for the resampled QFB s of type 0 and 1 are equivalent to downsampling by 2 along the dimension. Here, we considered only horizontal direction. In [10], first half of the channel was indexed by and bounded as, where indicates the levels of the DFB channel. Associate this index as a sequence of path types either type 0 or type 1, as ( ) of the filter banks from the second level leading to that channel. Therefore, using expanding rule, can be rewritten as ( ) So, using above path type with index k and from Figure 2.15, for the channel k, the sequence of filtering and downsampling can be written as [15], ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) From this and using the concept of multirate identity recursively we can write, (a) Type 0 19

31 (b) Type 1 Figure 2.16: Left: The analysis side of the two resampled QFB s that are used from the third level in the first half channels of the DFB. Right: The equivalent filter banks using parallelogram filters. The black regions represent the ideal frequency supports of the filters [10]. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (( ( ) ) ) ( ) Where, ( )( ) is the single filtering form of the analysis side of channel. This form was followed by down-sampling process that was headed by overall sampling matrix the partial product of overall sampling matrix. ( ) in which is In real time applications, filters with non-ideal frequency response will be used. Therefore, the upsampling operation fed on the filters shears their impulses in different directions as shown in example Figure 2.17 [2, 10]. Here, we can observe that this shearing of impulse responses produces equivalent filters that have linear supports in space and span in all directions. The DFB s introduced by Bamberger and Smith will generate distorted sub-band images because the modulation and scrambling operations introduce frequency scrambling. In the new construction of the DFB, the modulation problem was solved by incorporating the equivalent and modulated filters at each level of the DFB. To fix the resampling problem, in [10], author proposed the back-sampling operations at the end of the analysis side of DFB. Because of this, overall sampling matrices of all channels become diagonal. 20

32 Figure 2.17: Impulse responses of 32 equivalent filters for the first half of channels in 6-levels DFB that use the Haar filters. Black and gray squares correspond to +1 and 1, respectively [10]. Therefore, to correct the resampling problem (to exclude the scrambling frequencies affect), the explicit formula for the back sampling matrices in new construction of DFB is as follows: ( ) ( ) ( ( ) ) ( ) Here, we have to note that these matrices are for the first half channels with ; and for the second half channels are obtained by transposing these matrices. By appending a down-sampling by ( ) at the end of the analysis side of the channel in the DFB, it becomes equivalent to filtering by ( )( ) followed by down-sampling [10] by ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) { ( ) ( ) ( ) Because of the reason ( ) is unimodular matrices, sampling using theses matrices rearranges the coefficients in the DFB subbands that enhances the visualization. Figure 2.18 shows the image decomposition using CT. In this decomposition, for LP or multiscale decomposition, we used 5-3 biorthogonal filter with three levels of decomposition and for DFB or directional decomposition, we used McClellan transformed directional filters of the 5-3 filters [2]. 21

33 Figure 2.18: Contourlet Transform of Barbara Image. This image was decomposed into three levels and eight directional subbands [1, 2] Contourlet Coefficients Structure and definitions of relationship among Contourlet coefficients A decomposed image using CT will generate the CT coefficients in different subbands. These coefficients are correlated with each other in terms of scale, direction [1]. As wavelet concept is well known in signal processing, we took the same as an example to explain the concept of contourlet coefficients [18]. 22

34 (a) (b) Figure 2.19: (a) Contourlet coefficients with their relationships. (b) Wavelet coefficients relationships [18]. For a given contourlet coefficient C, the following relationships hold with other coefficients in CT decomposition [18]. With reference to spatial location of the given coefficient C, the coefficient that exists in the same spatial location in the immediately coarser scale is defined as its parent (PC), while those in the same spatial location in the immediately finer scale are its children. A parent will have a grandparent coefficient (GC) from relevant coarser scale. In the same subband, at the given spatial location, the given coefficient C is always surrounded by eight adjacent coefficients named by neighbors (NC). Those at the same scale and spatial location but in different directions are defined as cousins (CC) of each other. Figure 2.19 explains the relationship between contourlet coefficients and the difference between wavelet decomposition. In this figure, we can observe that contourlet transform had four children in two separate directional subbands but in case of wavelet, every parent has its child in the same 23

35 direction [18]. Therefore, we can say that contourlet transform can represent the images in diversified scale, space and orientation Statistics of Contourlet Coefficients To design a system model that can decompose an image, the statistical information of each coefficient and its neighbour s distribution over subbands in terms of scale, space and direction is very important. Marginal statistics will provide the individual coefficient statistical information and joint statistics. Mutual information will provide coefficients neighbour s distribution over subbands in terms of scale, space and direction [1] A. Marginal Statistics: From Figure 2.20 [1, 18], we can observe the distribution of contourlet coefficients among different levels and subbands. Heavy tails of the bars in histograms represent the majority of coefficients at that scale. We can also observe that as the level increases the distribution is changing its scale i.e. transformation is sparse B. Joint Statistical Distribution In Figure 2.18, despite the decorrelation properties of CT, we can observe that contourlet coefficients are not statistically independent or simply, we can say that they are statistically dependant [18]. Large magnitudes in contourlet coefficients occur when contourlet function overlap and align with image edges [18]. These large magnitude coefficients will always show correlation to the coefficients in next level in same space and orientation. In Figure 2.20, we can see the joint scatter graphs that were conditioned on parent, cousin and neighbour referring to the Figure 2.18 [18]. From Figure 2.21, we can conclude: 1. In all three scatter graphs, coefficients were clustered near zero amplitude point. Hence, in case of inter scale i.e. ( ), if parent node has small magnitude, its children are very 24

36 likely to be small too and in case of intra scale i.e.( small magnitude than its neighbour tends to be small too [18]. ), if the previous coefficient has Figure 2.20: Histograms of the Barbara image contourlet coefficients. Histograms (a) to (c) processed from first level; (d) to (f) from second level and (g) to (i) from third level. Figure 2.21: Joint scatter graphs conditioned on parent ( ), cousins ( ) and neighbours ( ) [18]. 25

37 2. In comparison between strong dependencies and little dependencies conditioned on parents, cousins and neighbors can be found when the coefficients are at higher amplitude. This indicates that the dependencies in these three kinds of conditional distributions are local, especially when the CT coefficients, including the reference and its parents, cousins and neighbors are small [5, 18] C. Mutual Information among coefficients Mutual information among coefficients will provide coefficients neighbour s distribution over subbands in terms of scale, space and direction. Mutual information can be used as measure of dependencies [18]. The mutual information in between two variables can be defined as, ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Mutual information in between two variables can also be estimated using entropy. Entropy in between two coefficients can be calculated as: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Where, ( ) ( ) ( ) are entropy of variable respectively [5]. Entropy of variable can be calculated as [18]: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Where, ( ) is the probability of variable at the state of. 26

38 CHAPTER 3 IMPLEMENTATION 3.1. Implementation model of NR IQACT This chapter explains the system model that we used to find the quality of an image. We modelled the concept of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment using Contourlet Transform (NR IQACT) as shown in Figure Image data set and its explanation Our algorithm is validated on the laboratory for image engineering (LIVE) database [20].This database contains 29 high resolution 24 bits/pixels RGB images as reference or original and corresponding 227 JPEG2000 compressed images. The difference mean opinion scores (DMOS) of the image is provided to describe the subjective quality of the degraded images. The database has been divided into two sets to simplify the process of testing and training. Among the two sets, one set is used for training which contains 10 sets of different images. In these 10 sets, each set contains around 7 to 8 images, one original and remaining are distorted images; similarly for testing we have taken another 10 different sets of images in which each set contains 7 to 8 images, one original and remaining are distorted images. So, in total we considered 78 images for training and 78 images for testing. The luminance component of images was normalized to be a root-mean-squared (RMS) value of 1.0 per pixel, and these images were employed to validate our algorithm. The difference between each scale for estimating the subband coefficient is learned from the uncompressed or original images in the training set [1]. 3.3 NR-IQACT system model As shown in Figure 3.1, (1) CT has been used to optimally approximate the given input image s as piecewise smooth functions using its contourlet coefficients in different sub-bands at different levels. (2) The relationship between contourlet coefficients in diversified sub-bands and levels is represented by conditional histogram or joint statistics distribution. 27

39 Contourlet Transform Joint Histogram Input Image Relationship between CT Coefficients Image Dependent Threshold Non-linear Combination ( ( ( ) )) Image Quality Figure 3.1: System model for NR-IQACT in contourlet domain [1]. 28

40 (3) The statistical information of contourlet coefficients is used to indicate the variation of image quality. (4) Image dependent threshold has been adopted to reduce the effect of image content while calibrating the image quality from joint histogram. (5) Image quality is calculated by combining the extracted features of the given image in each subband nonlinearly Contourlet Transform CT or PDFB is an efficient representation for image geometry structure. It employs LP and DFB to perform multi-scale and multi-directional decomposition in frequency domain. LP will capture point discontinuities in an image and DFB links the captured point discontinuities into linear structures [1, 2].Figure 2.1 explains the concept of multi-scale and multi-directional decomposition or representation using LP and DFB Contourlet coefficients As mentioned in the system model, our second step is finding the relationship between contourlet coefficients using joint statistics distribution. In our thesis, contourlet coefficient s magnitude is modelled by combining all correlation, conditioned on the magnitude of linear prediction of the coefficient, P, as follows [2, 20]: ( ) ( ) In the above equations, M and N are considered as independent zero mean random variables, represents linear prediction parameters and comes from coefficient neighborhood of in space, scale, and orientation [1]. 29

41 Based on statistical dependencies in between contourlet coefficients, the mutual information can be predicted using joint histogram Statistics of contourlet coefficients in distorted natural images The statistical dependency of and in terms of scale, direction and space can be described by logarithmic joint histogram of the same. Figure 3.2 shows the joint histogram of (Log 2 P, Log 2 C) of natural image and its corresponding JPEG2000 distorted version. In Figure 3.3(b), we can observe that, on logarithmic axes, natural images will have strong nonlinear dependency in between and. Now, an image dependent threshold was used to divide the joint histogram into four parts. From this division, to find the significant information, we used following relation [1]: ( ) ( ) Here in equations 3.3 and 3.4, and are the significant and insignificant C and P coefficients in the considered subband; represents the total number of coefficients in a considered subband and T is the image dependent threshold that was employed in joint histogram. In the implemented model, we used significant information ( ) as a quality indicator in finding the image quality of JPEG2000 compressed images. Insignificant information can be used as a quality indicator in finding the quality of white noise disturbed images due to the reason white noise add extra information on high frequency Image-dependent threshold Statistical distribution of joint histogram we discussed in previous section changes not only with distortion of the image, but also with the image content. So, we need an image dependent threshold that can rationally divide significant and insignificant information in joint histogram. Therefore, due 30

42 to the reason of complexity and need of preciseness in the process, we employed ( ( )) as image dependent threshold [1]. From Figure 3.3, we can observe that due to the reason LP decomposition, the logarithmic mean of CT coefficients shows the biggest difference between each scale. This difference will become more because of image content. On the other side, logarithmic magnitude of CT coefficients in the same scale change more or less in a regular way due to DFB employment [1]. ( ) ( ) (a) (b) Figure 3.2: Joint histograms of (Log2P, Log2C) for different distorted images. (a). Natural (b). JPEG2000 Figure 3.3(a): The subband serial number used in subband enumeration of 3.3 (b) [1]. 31

43 From Figure 3.3 (b), another important observation is that, we can see the degradation of image in almost all subbands in CT. But, in wavelet domain only partial subbands will get affected by distortions. Therefore, we need more precise statistical model to evaluate image quality [1]. Figure 3.3 (b): ( ( ))versus subband enumeration index [1]. We train different parameters between each scale by the natural images in the training set [1]. But, in some subbands we can see deviation of mean value of contourlet coefficients from ( ( )) Training methodology We used a nonlinear combination to find the image quality. Because, the distortion is different in each scale and direction, therefore, to integrate these features we need a nonlinear combination. The nonlinear transform of these features is used to calculate the quality of each subband as follows [1]: 32

44 ( ( ( ) )) ( ) Where, is the predicted image quality; or is probability of significant or insignificant and for the subband;, and are fitting parameters for the subband that can be trained from the training set [1].To calculate the final quality ( ) Where, subband. 3.5 Testing method and algorithm to calibrate image quality The following algorithm explains the method that we followed to process the image database that we mentioned in From the reference database [20], we randomly selected 78 images for training and another 78 images (with corresponding subjective values) for testing. These two sets consist of original and JPEG2000 compression images. 2. We employed CT or PDFB to decompose the given image. Here, we considered decomposition at 3 levels using biorthogonal 9/7 filters in LP and ladder or pkva filters in DFB. 3. Using the concept of relationship in-between contourlet coefficients, we modeled the mutual information of C and P using their joint histogram. 4. We employed image dependent threshold on joint histogram to find the significant information using equations (3.3) and (3.4). 5. To minimize threshold offsets and fitting parameters, we used unconstrained non-linear minimization (MATLAB command fminsearch ) [1, 20]. Using fminsearch function and subband quality equation (3.7), we obtained k, u and t parameter values for 14 subbands of each image and thus for all the training image set. Then we calculated the average of all k, u, and t values for 14 subbands in each image and for all 33

45 the images as final K, U, and T values. Input these final K, U, and T values for testing or to predict the quality of different set of images [20]. 6. We obtained q by fitting the trained K, U, and T parameters values for the current tested image. Here, we used MATLAB command fitfunction. 3.6 Subjective image quality assessment Quality assessment research strongly depends upon subjective experiments to provide calibrated data as well as a testing mechanism. After all, the goal of all QA research is to build a rational agreement between quality predictions and subjective opinion of human observers. In order to calibrate an image quality using QA algorithms and to test their performance, a data set of images for which quality has been ranked by human subjects is required. The QA algorithm may be trained using this data set, and could be tested on distorted images [20] Image quality assessment using SSIM The Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) is a quality metric which measures the structural similarity between two images. SSIM is still used as an alternative for evaluation of perceptual quality assessment. SSIM considers quality degradations in the images as perceived changes in the variation of structural information between two images. The SSIM metric is calculated on various windows of an image. The measure between two windows X and Y of common size N N is: ( ) ( )( ) ( )( ) (3.9) Where, is the average of x, the average of y, is the variance of x, is the variance of y, the covariance of X and Y. The ( ) ( ) are two variables to stabilize the division with weak denominator, L is the dynamic range of the pixel-values (typically this is 2 # of bits per pixel -1), k 1 = 0.01 and k 2 = 0.03 by default. In our work, we considered X as input data that was given to NR IQACT and Y as subjective results. 34

46 3.8. Evaluation of Test Results We evaluated our obtained results using Pearson s Correlation coefficient Pearson s Correlation Coefficient Pearson s correlation coefficient [21] can be defined as the measure of correlation or dependence between two variables. It can be used as a measure of strength of linear dependence between two variables. ( ) (3.10) Where, X and Y are two variables, σ is the standard deviation and Coʋ is the covariance. In this work, we evaluated our results using Pearson correlation coefficient in two ways. First we considered X as objective data i.e. the results obtained using NR IQACT and Y as subjective scores. Then, we considered X as results obtained using SSIM (i.e. using section 3.7) and Y as NR IQACT results. 35

47 CHAPTER 4 RESULTS In this chapter we present the results that we obtained in each step of the system model of NR IQACT or implementation that we discussed in chapter No Reference Image Quality Assessment using Contourlet Transform (NR-IQACT) In Fig 4.1, the coin-fountain image was decomposed into three pyramidal levels, which were then decomposed into two, four and eight directional subbands. Small magnitude coefficients are in colour black while large coefficients are in colour white. On various set of images, the process of training and testing was done numerous times to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm. Than we used subjective score and SSIM we validated the obtained results. Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Figure 4.1: Contourlet coefficientsof 14 directional subbands at 3 different levels (1, 2 and 3) of coinfountain image. Here LP works at level 0 and DFB at level 1, 2 and 3. 36

48 Log2(C) Log2(C) We implemented the NR IQACT model on an image called coin-fountain. Fig 4.2 shows the joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for two subbands at level 1. Fig 4.3 shows joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for 4 subbands at level 2. Fig 4.4 shows the joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for 8 subbands at level 3 of coinfountain image. Level 1 Sub-Band 2 Level 1 SubBand Log2(P) Log2(P) Figure 4.2: Joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for two subbands at level 1. (Of coinfountain image).from left to right, first is vertical and second is horizontal subband. Figure 4.3: Joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for 4subband at level 2 of coinfountain image. From top to bottom, first two are horizontal subbands and remaining two are vertical subbands, Fig 4.5 shows the coinfountain images in which the calibrated quality was degraded due to the image content (the background information of the image). Fig 4.6 shows the histogram of 14 th subband (because of the finest scale in the process of our decomposition) in level 3 of respective images that 37

49 Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) Log2(C) were shown in Fig.4.5. Here, we can observe that image histograms shapes were affected due to the distortion introduced by the compression process. Level 3 Sub-Band 8 Level 3 Sub-Band 9 Level 3 Sub-Band 10 Level 3 Sub-Band Log2(P) Log2(P) Log2(P) Log2(P) Level 3 Sub-Band 12 Level 3 Sub-Band 13 Level 3 Sub-Band 14 Level 3 Sub-Band Log2(P) Log2(P) Log2(P) Log2(P) Figure 4.4: Joint histograms of ( (P), (C)) for 8 subbands at level 3 of coinfountain image. From top to bottom, first four are horizontal subbands and next four are vertical subbands Figure4.5: The coinfountain images considered to find the effect of image content. The left image is the original and right is its corresponding distorted version. Figure4.6: Histogram of original image of one subband and its corresponding 5 distorted version of coinfountain image. Shape of joint histogram is affected by distortion. 38

50 Log(C) Fig 4.7 shows the partition of significant and insignificant information in a normal joint histogram using image dependent threshold. The resultant four quadrants are significant C and significant P, insignificant C and insignificant P, significant P and insignificant C, insignificant P and significant C. We used the partition significant P and insignificant C as quality indicator because this region produces better results compared to remaining other three regions Sig C,P InSig C,P Log(P) Figure 4.7: The partition of significant and insignificant (P and C) information. Image depended threshold is introduced to divide the joint histogram plane into four parts. In Fig 4.9, the quality prediction is plotted on the scale with limits 0 to1 which is normalized scale or in other words 0 to 1 can be considered as 0 to 100 value scale. Here, the image quality nearer to 1 is the better or best quality and nearer to 0 is bad quality. Table 4.1 shows 10 different images sets that were taken for testing. In these 10 sets, each set contains one natural and its corresponding 7 to 8 different distorted images. Figure 4.8:First set of bikes images that were taken for testing. First one is Original image and their respective distorted images. 39

51 Quality Quality Comparision: Subjective,NR-IQACT,SSIM Image Quality NR-IQACT Subjective SSIM Image set Figure 4.9: NR-IQAT, subjective values and SSIM metric for the images in Fig 4.8. X-axis indicates 8 images and Y-label indicates quality in scale of 0 to 1. In Appendix A, we presented complete sets of images that we considered and its respective quality graph. For easy understanding, we presented first two images sets namely bikes and parrots in this chapter. It was observed that when the values of Pearson correlation coefficient close to 1, the results produced becomes better Figure 4.10: Second set of parrot images that were taken for testing. First one is Original image and their respective distorted images. 40

52 pearson correlation coeff Quality Quality Comparision: Subjective,NR-IQACT,SSIM Image Quality NR-IQACT Subjective SSIM Image set Figure 4.11: NR-IQAT, subjective values and SSIM metric for the images in Fig X-axis indicates 8 images and Y-label indicates quality in scale of 0 to 1. pearson correlation coeff Comparision: NR-IQACT vs Subjective,NR-IQACT vs SSIM 1 NR-IQACT vs Subjective 0.98 NR-IQACT vs SSIM Testing Image set Figure 4.12: Metric assessments, Pearson correlation coefficient between objective value and its corresponding subjective values and Pearson correlation coefficient between objective value and SSIM obtained for all 10 image sets. In the Table 4.1, we have just shown one original for each set. Table 4.2 shows the K, U and T values, fitting obtained from equation 3.7. The 8 subbands that were considered here are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 41

53 Image sets of original image(1set has 6 to 7 distorted images) Pearson Correlation between Subjective and NR-IQACT Quality Pearson Correlation between SSIM and NR- IQACT Quality

54 Table 4.1: Correlation coefficient of 10 different set of images that were taken for testing. Here, Pearson NR_IQACT vs. SUB = and Pearson NR_IQACT vs. SSIM = Trained with coarser and finer level SUBBANDS K U T Table 4.2:Results of K, U, and T fitting parameter obtained after using MATLAB command fminsearch for 8 subbands. 43

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