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A comparative study of color image compression standards using perceptually driven quality metrics

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Frédéric Dufaux, Michael Ansorge

The task of comparing the performance of different codecs is strictly related to the research in the field of objective quality metrics. Even if several objective quality metrics have been proposed in literature, the lack of standardization in the field of objective quality assessment and the lack of extensive and reliable comparisons of the performance of the different state-of-the-art metrics often make the results obtained using objective metrics not very reliable. In this paper we aim at comparing the performance of three of the existing alternatives for compression of digital pictures, i.e. JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR compression, by using different objective Full Reference metrics and considering also perceptual quality metrics which take into account the color information of the data under analysis.

SPIE2008

Error Resiliency of Distributed Video Coding in Wireless Video Communication

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Mourad Ouaret, Michael Ansorge

Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a new paradigm in video coding, based on the Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv theorems. DVC offers a number of potential advantages: flexible partitioning of the complexity between the encoder and decoder, robustness to channel errors due to intrinsic joint source-channel coding, codec independent scalability, and multi-view coding without communications between the cameras. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of DVC in an error-prone wireless communication environment. We also present a hybrid spatial and temporal error concealment approach for DVC. Finally, we perform a comparison with a state- of-the-art AVC/H.264 video coding scheme in the presence of transmission errors

SPIE2008

A multi-channel objective model for the Full-Reference assessment of color pictures

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Michael Ansorge

This paper presents a new approach for the design of a full reference objective quality metric for the assessment of color pictures. Our goal is to build a multi-channel metric based on the perceptual weighting of single-channel metrics. A psycho-visual experiment is thus designed in order to determine the values of the weighting factors. This metric is expected to provide a new useful tool for the quality assessment of compressed pictures in the framework of codec performance evaluation.

2008