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A Perceptually Based Comparison Of Image Similarity Metrics, Richard Russell, Pawan Sinha
A Perceptually Based Comparison Of Image Similarity Metrics, Richard Russell, Pawan Sinha
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The assessment of how well one image matches another forms a critical component both of models of human visual processing and of many image analysis systems. Two of the most commonly used norms for quantifying image similarity are L1 and L2, which are specific instances of the Minkowski metric. However, there is often not a principled reason for selecting one norm over the other. One way to address this problem is by examining whether one metric, better than the other, captures the perceptual notion of image similarity. This can be used to derive inferences regarding similarity criteria the human visual …