Exploring the Use of Gradients in the Structural Similarity Image Quality Measure
摘要
In this paper, we investigate if the well-known Structural Similarity image quality measure (SSIM) can be improved by incorporating gradient information. We propose a simple gradient similarity measure which yields results similar to the canonical correlation method. Using the LIVE image database, we show that our proposed gradient-based SSIM exhibits improved performance for degraded images in the mid-to-low quality range.