No-reference blur metric using double-density and dual-tree two-dimensional wavelet transformation

Abstract

Over the past decade the digital camera has become widely available in many devices such as cell phones, computers, etc. Therefore, the perceptual quality of digital images is an important and necessary requirement to evaluate digital images. To improve the quality of images captured with camera, we must identify and measure the artifacts that cause blur within the images. Blur is mainly caused by pixel intensity due to multiple sources. The most common types of blurs are known as object motion, defocus, and camera motion. In the last two decades, the discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) has become a cutting-edge technology in the signal and image processing field for such applications as denoising. The disadvantage of the DWT is that it is not able to directly observe blur coefficients. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for a blur metric for an image. Our approach is based on the double-density dual tree two dimensional wavelet transformations (D3TDWT) which simultaneously processes the properties of both the double-density DWT and dual tree DWT. We also utilize gradient to evaluate blurring artifacts and measure the image quality.