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What is VQA?
- VQA = Visual Quality Assessment
- IQA/VQA = Image/Video Quality Assessment
- PQA = Perceptual Quality Assessment
- VQM = Visual Quality Measurement
- IQM/VQM = Image/Video Quality Measurement
- PQM = Perceptual Quality Measurement
- QoE = Quality of Experience
- QoS = Quality of Service => IWQoS
- QoP = Quality of Protection
- Image and video processing
- Color science (Colorimetry)
- Computer vision and pattern recognition
- Experimental psychology
- Neuroscience (Human visual system)
- Digital imaging and displays
- ...
Resources
Visual Quality Assessment
General Web Resources: Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography 5.3.9 Image Quality Evaluation, Quality Assessment, and Imaging Models (5.3.9.1 Motion Coding Evaluation, Video Image Quality Evaluations) Stefan Winkler's Image and Video Quality ResourcesOrganizations: VQEG (Video Quality Research @ ITS.NTIA) VSF's Quality of Experience (QoE) Metrics Activity Group Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) @ i3a IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP) Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) Conformity Assessment Steering Committee (CASC) (IEEE Standard Association Working Group 1858, IEEE Project P1858 - Standard for CPIQ)
People and Algorithms:
(Qualinet WG2 Taskforce "Crowdsourcing",
crowdlib mailing list)
Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (LIVE) @ UTAustin
SSIM
Dr. Stefan Winkler
Cornell Visual Communications Lab
(VSNR)
PSNR-HVS-M
FSIM
DCTune 2.0: Perceptual Optimization of JPEG Images and Perceptual Error Metric
Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) Lab @ Arizona State University
Multimedia Signal Processing Group @ EPFL
Q2S - Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems @ NTNU.no
Prof. Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas @ Northwestern University
Image Coding and Analysis Lab @ OSU
MeTriX MuX Visual Quality Assessment Package
Visual Quality Index Implementations @ Salzburg
VBQUEST: Visual Blur QUality Evaluation SofTware
MSU Video Quality Measurement Tools
MSU Perceptual Video Quality tool
(VI(S)TA) Image Quality Toolbox (VistaQualityTools)
EvalVid - A Video Quality Evaluation Tool-set
Perceptual Image Diff
Digital Imaging Devices and Displays: Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
camcorderinfo.com
Camcorders Reviews @ CNET
Camcorder HQ™
dpreview.com
toothwalker.org
oled-display.info
oled-display.net
oled-info.com
tvoled.co.uk
oledtvzone.com
中国OLED网
laser-tv.org
Mitsubishi LasserVue TV
Necsel™ Laser Color
LED TV @ ledtele.co.ukCommercial Products and Services: Imatest OPTICOM (OPTICOM's PEVQ™) Nikon's VQ-1000 Analytical Image Quality Evaluation Tool Symmetricom - QoE Assurance: V-Factor Tektronix PQA500 Sarnoff - Video Test and Measurement AccepTV Agama videoclarity.com Semaca VQLab eInfochips Video Quality Inspector VISUALmpeg (VISUALmpegVQA, VISUALmpegQUALIFY) R&S® DVQ Digital Video Quality Analyzer DxO Labs (DxO Analyzer, DxO Analyzer Demokit; DxOMark)
Color Science
General Web Resources: ColorWiki ColorPro colorbasics.com: Science of Color in Non-Technical Terms EasyRGB
Bruce Lindbloom's Web Site on Colorimetry
(CIE Color Calculator,
CIE Spectral Display,
ColorChecker Calculator,
Color Difference Calculator,
Chromatic Adaptation Calculator,
Lab Gamut Display,
Munsell Calculator)
Charles Poynton's Color Technology Page
(Color FAQ,
Gamma FAQ)
James M. Palmer's Radiometry and Photometry FAQ
Norwegian Color Research Laboratory
Computational Vision Laboratory @ Simon Fraser University
Color Constancy: Research Website on Illuminant EstimationOrganizations: CIE - International Commission on Illumination OSA = Optical Society of America ICC - International Color Consortium ICA = International Colour Association ISCC = Inter-Society Color Council AATCC = American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists SDC = Society of Dyers and Colourists Colour Index International CAUS = The Color Association of the United States EOS = European Optical Society
Companies:
Color Blindness: Colour Blind Resource Centre colorvisiontesting.com Colors for the Color Blind
IBM aDesigner
What do colour-blind people see? (by Hans Brettel @ ENST.fr)
Tools: ICC Profile Inspector Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP
COLORLAB
Colorlab Toolbox @ UJoensuu
OptProp - a color properties toolbox (Jerker Wagberg)
(demo)
Gerbil
Kobus Barnard's source code for computational color constancy
Retinex in Matlab Python-Colormath
QualityCrowd
(QualityCrowd 2 @ GitHub)
Databases
Image Quality Assessment Test Databases: KADID-10k Image Database KonIQ-10k Image Database IQA-Experts-300 Image Database KonPatch-30k Image Database
LIVE Image Quality Assessment Database
LIVE In the Wild Image Quality Challenge Database
IRCCyN/IVC Image Quality Database
IRCCyN/IVC LAR-Coded Art Image Quality Database
MICT Image Quality Evaluation Database (Toyama Database)
TAMPERE IMAGE DATABASE (TID) 2013
TAMPERE IMAGE DATABASE (TID) 2008
Categorical Subjective Image Quality (CSIQ) Database @ OSU Vision Lab
BTH WIQ (Wireless Imaging Quality) Database
ACQUINE: Automatic Rating of Photo Aesthetics
TUD Image Quality Database: Perceived Ringing EPFL-MMSP 3D Image Quality Database
Video Quality Assessment Test Databases: KoNViD-1k Video Database
Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL)
VQEG FR-TV Phase 1 Test Scenes @ CRC VQEG FTP Site
VQEG Test Sequences @ vqeg.its.bldrdoc.gov
LIVE Video Quality Database
LIVE Wireless Video Quality Assessment Database
USC MCL-V Database
EPFL-PoliMI Video Quality Assessment Database
IRCCyN IVC 1080i Database
IRCCyN/IVC SD RoI (Region-of-Interest) Database
Poly@NYU Video Quality Database
Poly@NYU Packet Loss Database
EPFL-MMSP Scalable Video Database
IRCCyN/IVC Eyetracker SD 2009_12 Database
Video Subjective Test Database @ Uni-Plymouth.UK
TUM HDTV Video Quality Data Sets
MOBILE◦3DTV - Database of impaired videos
EPFL-MMSP 3D Video Quality Database
Ausiovisual Quality Database for Video Calls in Wireless Applications @ Uni-Plymouth.UKEyetracking Databases: IRCCyN/IVC Eyetracker Data for the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset IRCCyN/IVC Eyetracker Database 1 (200605) IRCCyN/IVC Eyetracker SD Database (200811) IRCCyN/IVC Eyetracker SD Database (200912) LIVE DOVES (a Database Of Visual Eye movementS) BTH VAIQ (Visual Attention for Image Quality) Database TUD Eye Tracking Database 1 (on LIVE Database) TUD Eye Tracking Database 2: Task Effect on Saliency TUD Eye Tracking Database: Interactions MIT CSAIL Eyetracking Dataset Gert Kootstra's Eye-Tracking |Data NUSEF (NUS Eye-Fixation Database)
USC CRCNS eye-1 Dataset
USC iLab Eyetracking Video Dataset
UniLuebeck-INB Video Eyetracking Dataset
DIEM Dataset
Color Spectral Databases: Spectra Database @ Lappeenranta University of Technology Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) USGS Digital Spectral Library Floral Reflectance Database (FReD) The Vrhel Spectral Data Set Simon Fraser University's Data for Computer Vision and Computational Colour Science Joensuu Spectral Database Joensuu Spectral Image Database Nascimento et al.'s Hyperspectral Images of Natural Scenes 2002
Imaging Devices and Displays: Camera Response Functions: Database (DoRF) and Model (EMOR) @ ColumbiaU
Other Databases: The Barcelona Calibrated Images Database Test Images for Computational Colour Constancy @ Simon Fraser University Multi-Illuminant Dataset @ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg