brisque

Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator (BRISQUE) no-reference image quality score

Syntax

score = brisque(I)

score = brisque(I,model)

Description

score = brisque(I) calculates the no-reference image quality score for image I using the Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator (BRISQUE). brisque compares I to a default model computed from images of natural scenes with similar distortions. A smaller score indicates better perceptual quality.

score = brisque(I,model) calculates the image quality score using a custom feature model.

Examples

Calculate BRISQUE Score Using Default Feature Model

Compute the BRISQUE score for a natural image and its distorted versions using the default model.

Read an image into the workspace. Create copies of the image with noise and blurring distortions.

I = imread("lighthouse.png");
Inoise = imnoise(I,"salt & pepper",0.02);
Iblur = imgaussfilt(I,2);

Display the images.

montage({I,Inoise,Iblur},Size=[1 3],ThumbnailSize=[])
title("Original Image | Noisy Image | Blurry Image")

Calculate the BRISQUE score for each image using the default model, and display the score.

brisqueI = brisque(I);
disp("BRISQUE score for the original image is: "+brisqueI)

BRISQUE score for the original image is: 20.6586

brisqueInoise = brisque(Inoise);
disp("BRISQUE score for the noisy image is: "+brisqueInoise)

BRISQUE score for the noisy image is: 52.6074

brisqueIblur = brisque(Iblur);
disp("BRISQUE score for the blurry image is: "+brisqueIblur)

BRISQUE score for the blurry image is: 47.7553

The original undistorted image has the best perceptual quality and therefore the lowest BRISQUE score.

Calculate BRISQUE Score Using Custom Feature Model

Train a custom BRISQUE model from a set of quality-aware features and corresponding human opinion scores. Use the custom model to calculate a BRISQUE score for an image of a natural scene.

Save images from an image datastore. These images all have compression artifacts resulting from JPEG compression.

setDir = fullfile(toolboxdir('images'),'imdata');
imds = imageDatastore(setDir,'FileExtensions',{'.jpg'});

Specify the opinion score for each image. The following differential mean opinion score (DMOS) values are for illustrative purposes only. They are not real DMOS values obtained through experimentation.

opinionScores = 100*rand(1,size(imds.Files,1));

Create the custom model of quality-aware features using the image datastore and the opinion scores. Because the scores are random, the property values will vary.

model = fitbrisque(imds,opinionScores')

Extracting features from 33 images.
......Training support vector regressor...

Done.

model = 
  brisqueModel with properties:

             Alpha: [31×1 double]
              Bias: 58.0900
    SupportVectors: [31×36 double]
            Kernel: 'gaussian'
             Scale: 0.3729

Read an image of a natural scene that has the same type of distortion as the training images. Display the image.

I = imread('car1.jpg');
imshow(I)

Calculate the BRISQUE score for the image using the custom model. Display the score.

brisqueI = brisque(I,model);
fprintf('BRISQUE score for the image is %0.4f.\n',brisqueI)

BRISQUE score for the image is 79.8961.

Input Arguments

I — Input image

2-D grayscale image | 2-D RGB image

Input image, specified as a 2-D grayscale or RGB image.

Data Types: single | double | int16 | uint8 | uint16

model — Custom model

brisqueModel object

Custom model trained on a set of quality-aware features, specified as a brisqueModel object. model is derived from natural scene statistics.

Output Arguments

score — No-reference image quality score

nonnegative scalar

No-reference image quality score, returned as a nonnegative scalar. The BRISQUE score is usually in the range [0, 100]. Lower values of score reflect better perceptual quality of image I with respect to the input model.

Data Types: double

Algorithms

brisque predicts the BRISQUE score by using a support vector regression (SVR) model trained on an image database with corresponding differential mean opinion score (DMOS) values. The database contains images with known distortion such as compression artifacts, blurring, and noise, and it contains pristine versions of the distorted images. The image to be scored must have at least one of the distortions for which the model was trained.

References

[1] Mittal, A., A. K. Moorthy, and A. C. Bovik. "No-Reference Image Quality Assessment in the Spatial Domain." IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Vol. 21, Number 12, December 2012, pp. 4695–4708.

[2] Mittal, A., A. K. Moorthy, and A. C. Bovik. "Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluation Engine." Presentation at the 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2011.

Version History

Introduced in R2017b