TY - GEN
T1 - Eye tracking based perceptual image inpainting quality analysis
AU - Vijay Venkatesh, M.
AU - Cheung, Sen Ching S.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The objective of image inpainting is to perform a seamless completion of missing areas in images. Evaluating the perceptual quality of an inpainting algorithm must rely on features of the Human Visual System. Using eye-tracking experiments, we show that there is a strong correlation between inpainting quality and visual attention. By comparing gaze densities within and outside the hole regions of inpainted images, we show that discernible artifacts due to inpainting attract an unusual amount of visual attention. The gaze density within the hole, normalized with the gaze density of the same region from the unmodified image, provides a useful measure in comparing different inpainting processes and corroborates well with subjective rankings.
AB - The objective of image inpainting is to perform a seamless completion of missing areas in images. Evaluating the perceptual quality of an inpainting algorithm must rely on features of the Human Visual System. Using eye-tracking experiments, we show that there is a strong correlation between inpainting quality and visual attention. By comparing gaze densities within and outside the hole regions of inpainted images, we show that discernible artifacts due to inpainting attract an unusual amount of visual attention. The gaze density within the hole, normalized with the gaze density of the same region from the unmodified image, provides a useful measure in comparing different inpainting processes and corroborates well with subjective rankings.
KW - Eye-tracking experiments
KW - Gaze
KW - Image inpainting
KW - Perceptual quality
KW - Subjective evaluation
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5653640
DO - 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5653640
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78651077309
SN - 9781424479948
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
SP - 1109
EP - 1112
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010 - Proceedings
T2 - 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010
Y2 - 26 September 2010 through 29 September 2010
ER -