LaG-DESIQUE - A Local-and-Global Blind Image Quality Evaluator Without Training on Human Opinion Scores.

This paper extends our previous DESIQUE [1] algorithm to a local-and-global way (LaG-DESIQUE) to blindly measure image quality without training on human opinion scores. The local DESIQUE extracts block-based log-derivative features and evaluates image quality through measuring the multivariate Gaussian distance between selected natural and test image patches. The global DESIQUE extracts image-based log-derivative features and image quality is estimated based on a two-stage framework, which was trained on a set of regenerated distorted images with their quality scores estimated by MAD [2] algorithm. The overall quality is the weighted average of local and global DESIQUE scores. Test on several image databases demonstrates that LaG-DESIQUE performs competitively well in predicting image quality.