Perceptual image quality assessment: a survey

G Zhai, X Min - Science China Information Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Perceptual quality assessment plays a vital role in the visual communication systems owing
to the existence of quality degradations introduced in various stages of visual signal …

An experiment-based review of low-light image enhancement methods

W Wang, X Wu, X Yuan, Z Gao - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images captured under poor illumination conditions often exhibit characteristics such as low
brightness, low contrast, a narrow gray range, and color distortion, as well as considerable …

LR3M: Robust low-light enhancement via low-rank regularized retinex model

X Ren, W Yang, WH Cheng, J Liu - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise causes unpleasant visual effects in low-light image/video enhancement. In this paper,
we aim to make the enhancement model and method aware of noise in the whole process …

Low-light image enhancement with semi-decoupled decomposition

S Hao, X Han, Y Guo, X Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light image enhancement is important for high-quality image display and other visual
applications. However, it is a challenging task as the enhancement is expected to improve …

An adaptive method for image restoration based on high-order total variation and inverse gradient

DNH Thanh, VBS Prasath, LM Hieu… - Signal, Image and Video …, 2020 - Springer
The total variation (TV) regularization model for image restoration is widely utilized due to its
edge preservation properties. Despite its advantages, the TV regularization can obtain …

A novel just-noticeable-difference-based saliency-channel attention residual network for full-reference image quality predictions

S Seo, S Ki, M Kim - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, due to the strength of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), many CNN-
based image quality assessment (IQA) models have been studied. However, previous CNN …

Exploiting local degradation characteristics and global statistical properties for blind quality assessment of tone-mapped HDR images

X Wang, Q Jiang, F Shao, K Gu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tone mapping operators (TMOs) are developed to convert a high dynamic range (HDR)
image into a low dynamic range (LDR) one for display with the goal of preserving as much …

Single image dehazing by approximating and eliminating the additional airlight component

K Borkar, S Mukherjee - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel technique for single image dehazing using adaptive nearest
neighbor regularization to obtain a haze-free transmission map and then approximating the …

A nonsubsampled countourlet transform based CNN for real image denoising

Z Lyu, C Zhang, M Han - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2020 - Elsevier
The state of the art deep learning based denoising methods can achieve great denoising
results. However, due to the lack of clean training data, the ground truth and noise level are …

Video quality assessment using space–time slice mappings

L Liu, T Wang, H Huang, AC Bovik - Signal Processing: Image …, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a full-reference (FR) video quality assessment framework that integrates
analysis of space–time slices (STSs) with frame-based image quality measurement (IQA) to …