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To register two images, existing methods normally estimate the parameters of an affine transform, and then perform an inverse affine transform to the test image by using the estimated parameters. Any metric can then be applied to the reference image and the normalized image. In this paper we propose a new method for measuring visual image quality which circumvents the need to estimate the parameters of the affine transform. Instead, we use the log-polar transform and the fast Fourier transform (FFT) to extract features that are invariant to translation, rotation, and scaling. We apply the existing structural similarity index measure (SSIM) to the two invariant feature images, where no inverse transform is needed. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the standard metric, the mean SSIM (MSSIM), significantly in terms of visual quality scores.
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Chen, G.Y., Krzyzak, A., Valev, V. (2024). A Robust Preprocessing Method for Measuring Image Visual Quality Using Log-Polar FFT Features. In: Hernández Heredia, Y., Milián Núñez, V., Ruiz Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. IWAIPR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49552-6_38
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