A psychovisual quality metric in free-energy principle

• Main Authors: Lin, Weisi, Zhang, Wenjun., Zhai, Guangtao., Wu, Xiaolin., Yang, Xiaokang.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84501; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13489
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we propose a new psychovisual quality metric of images based on recent developments in brain theory and neuroscience, particularly the free-energy principle. The perception and understanding of an image is modeled as an active inference process, in which the brain tries to explain the...