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The High-Resolution Rate-Distortion Function under the Structural Similarity Index
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2011, Article number: 857959 (2011)
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We show that the structural similarity (SSIM) index, which is used in image processing to assess the similarity between an image representation and an original reference image, can be formulated as a locally quadratic distortion measure. We, furthermore, show that recent results of Linder and Zamir on the rate-distortion function (RDF) under locally quadratic distortion measures are applicable to this SSIM distortion measure. We finally derive the high-resolution SSIM-RDF and provide a simple method to numerically compute an approximation of the SSIM-RDF of real images.
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Østergaard, J., Derpich, M.S. & Channappayya, S.S. The High-Resolution Rate-Distortion Function under the Structural Similarity Index. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2011, 857959 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/857959
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/857959