imageQualityIndex.m

function [quality, quality_map] = imageQualityIndex (img1, img2, block_size)
%========================================================================
% * Note: img_qi is renamed as imageQualityIndex
%
%Copyright (c) 2001 The University of Texas at Austin
%All Rights Reserved.
%
%Author  : Zhou Wang 
%Version : 1.0
% 
%The authors are with the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering
%(LIVE), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The
%University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
%
%Kindly report any suggestions or corrections to zwang@ece.utexas.edu
%
%Acknowledgement:
%The author would like to thank Mr. Umesh Rajashekar, the Matlab master
%in our lab, for spending his precious time and giving his kind help
%on writing this program. Without his help, this program would not
%achieve its current efficiency.
%
%========================================================================
%
%This is an efficient implementation of the algorithm for calculating
%the universal image quality index proposed by Zhou Wang and Alan C. 
%Bovik. Please refer to the paper "A Universal Image Quality Index"
%by Zhou Wang and Alan C. Bovik, published in IEEE Signal Processing
%Letters, 2001. In order to run this function, you must have Matlab's
%Image Processing Toobox.
%
%Input : an original image and a test image of the same size
%Output: (1) an overall quality index of the test image, with a value
%            range of [-1, 1].
%        (2) a quality map of the test image. The map has a smaller
%            size than the input images. The actual size is
%            img_size - BLOCK_SIZE + 1.
%
%Usage:
%
%1. Load the original and the test images into two matrices
%   (say img1 and img2)
%
%2. Run this function in one of the two ways:
%
%   % Choice 1 (suggested):
%   [qi qi_map] = img_qi(img1, img2);
%
%   % Choice 2:
%   [qi qi_map] = img_qi(img1, img2, BLOCK_SIZE);
%
%   The default BLOCK_SIZE is 8 (Choice 1). Otherwise, you can specify
%   it by yourself (Choice 2).
%
%3. See the results:
%
%   qi                    %Gives the over quality index.
%   imshow((qi_map+1)/2)  %Shows the quality map as an image.
%
%========================================================================

if (nargin == 1 | nargin > 3)
   quality = -Inf;
   quality_map = -1*ones(size(img1));
   return;
end

if (size(img1) ~= size(img2))
   quality = -Inf;
   quality_map = -1*ones(size(img1));
   return;
end

if (nargin == 2)  % sliding window, B by B
   block_size = 8;
end

N = block_size.^2;
sum2_filter = ones(block_size);

img1_sq   = img1.*img1;
img2_sq   = img2.*img2;
img12 = img1.*img2;

img1_sum   = filter2(sum2_filter, img1, 'valid');
img2_sum   = filter2(sum2_filter, img2, 'valid');
img1_sq_sum = filter2(sum2_filter, img1_sq, 'valid');
img2_sq_sum = filter2(sum2_filter, img2_sq, 'valid');
img12_sum = filter2(sum2_filter, img12, 'valid');

img12_sum_mul = img1_sum.*img2_sum;
img12_sq_sum_mul = img1_sum.*img1_sum + img2_sum.*img2_sum;
numerator = 4*(N*img12_sum - img12_sum_mul).*img12_sum_mul;
denominator1 = N*(img1_sq_sum + img2_sq_sum) - img12_sq_sum_mul;
denominator = denominator1.*img12_sq_sum_mul;

quality_map = ones(size(denominator));
index = (denominator1 == 0) & (img12_sq_sum_mul ~= 0);
quality_map(index) = 2*img12_sum_mul(index)./img12_sq_sum_mul(index);
index = (denominator ~= 0);
quality_map(index) = numerator(index)./denominator(index);

quality = mean2(quality_map);